How to keep trying to other machine with exceptional handling

[Yogesh_P]

Hi

I am trying to connect to machine in client-server model such that client should keep trying sending request to server until it gets a response from server and not just throw an exception, how can I handle that. Here the thing is that machine P0 may not be put when P1 is trying but will be run in few sec, so I need to keep trying that.

Here's what I am doing

while(P1Ack != 1)
			{
				P1connectsP0();
			}


public void P1connectsP0()
	{
		message.data[0] = "init";
		message.data[1] = pid;
		try
		{
			clientSock = new Socket(lamport.P0Ip, lamport.P0Port);
			lamport.log(lamport.pid +" ("+lamport.myIp+") "+ " is connecting to P0 ("+ lamport.P0Ip + ")" );
			clientWriter = new ObjectOutputStream(clientSock.getOutputStream());
			clientReader = new ObjectInputStream(clientSock.getInputStream());
			clientWriter.writeObject(message);
			clientWriter.flush();
		}
		catch(IOException ex)
		{
			System.out.println("Error : P1 unable to talk to P0");
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

Where P1 wants to keep trying to contact with P0. But it just keeps looping by throwing exceptions