title: Repeated calls by Restlet client to Restlet server hangs
body: <p>I am using Restlet to implement a web service.  The client (also uses Restlet) makes many consecutive calls to the server, but after a small number of calls complete successfully, further calls hang the server, which shows the message: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>INFO: Stop accepting new connections and transactions. Consider increasing the maximum number of threads.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>getContext().getParameters().add("maxThreads", "200");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that does not help.  In any case, it seems like the client should be able to make an unlimited number of calls, and increasing maxThreads just ups the limit.  It looks like I am not freeing up some resource or disconnecting after each client call, but I do not know how to do so.  </p>
  
  <p>The following (small as I could make it) stand alone program demonstrates the problem.  It starts a simple server and then a client calls it a bunch of times:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/** You may copy, modify, and re-use this code as you see fit - Jim Irrer */
  import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  
  import org.restlet.Application;
  import org.restlet.Component;
  import org.restlet.Request;
  import org.restlet.Response;
  import org.restlet.Restlet;
  import org.restlet.Server;
  import org.restlet.data.MediaType;
  import org.restlet.data.Method;
  import org.restlet.data.Protocol;
  import org.restlet.data.Status;
  import org.restlet.representation.InputRepresentation;
  import org.restlet.representation.Representation;
  import org.restlet.resource.ClientResource;
  import org.restlet.resource.Directory;
  
  public class SimpleServerPut extends Component implements Runnable {
      private static final int PORT = 8080;
  
      private static int readToByteArray(InputStream inputStream, byte[] buf) throws IOException {
          int length = 0;
          int b;
          while ((b = inputStream.read()) != -1) {
              buf[length++] = (byte)b;
          }
          return length;
      }
  
      @Override
      public void run() {
          getContext().getParameters().add("maxThreads", "200");
  
          // Create the HTTP server and listen on port PORT
          SimpleServerPut simpleServer = new SimpleServerPut();
          Server server = new Server(Protocol.HTTP, PORT, simpleServer);
          simpleServer.getClients().add(Protocol.FILE);
  
          // Create an application  
          Application application = new Application(simpleServer.getContext()) {  
              @Override  
              public Restlet createRoot() {  
                  return new Directory(getContext(), "C:");  
              }  
          };
  
          // Attach the application to the component and start it  
          simpleServer.getDefaultHost().attach("/stuff/", application);
          try {
              server.start();
          }
          catch (Exception ex) {
              ex.printStackTrace();
          }
      }
  
      @Override  
      public void handle(Request request, Response response) {  
          // assume the worst
          response.setStatus(Status.CLIENT_ERROR_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED);
          response.setEntity("No no - Bad client!  Only do PUTs.", MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN);
  
          try {
              if (request.getMethod() == Method.PUT) {
                  InputStream inputStream = request.getEntity().getStream();
                  byte[] buf = new byte[64*1024];
                  int totalLength = readToByteArray(inputStream, buf);
                  response.setStatus(Status.SUCCESS_OK);
                  String msg = "Number of bytes received: " + totalLength;
                  response.setEntity(msg, MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN);
                  System.out.println("server: " + msg);
                  return;
              }
          }
          catch (Exception ex) {
              ex.printStackTrace();
          }
      }
  
      private static String callServer() throws IOException {
          String urlText = "http://localhost:" + PORT + "/";
          ClientResource clientResource = new ClientResource(urlText);
          clientResource.setReferrerRef(urlText);
  
          byte[] buf = new byte[1000];
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; buf.length; i++) {
              buf[i] = (byte)((int)'a' + (i%26));
          }
          ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(buf);
          Representation representation = new InputRepresentation(byteArrayInputStream, MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM);
          Representation representation2 = clientResource.put(representation);
          byte[] responseBuf = new byte[16*1024];
          int length = readToByteArray(representation2.getStream(), responseBuf);
          Response response = clientResource.getResponse();
          Status status = response.getStatus();
          return "status: " + status + "    message: " + new String(responseBuf, 0, length);
      }
  
      // Start server and call it a bunch of times
      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          SimpleServerPut simpleServer = new SimpleServerPut();
          new Thread(simpleServer).start();
          Thread.sleep(200);  // cheap trick to make sure that server is running
          // make a bunch of client calls
          for (int t = 0; t &lt; 100; t++) {
              System.out.println("client count: " + (t+1) + "    " + callServer());
          }
          System.exit(0);
      }
  }
  </code></pre>