uninitialized local variable error

[stmfc]

in the following code, i got
the error "local variable s may not have been initialized" on line 19
but i think that ServerSocket variable s is obviously initialized on line 6.
what can be the problem?

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class SimpleServer {
public static void main(String args[]) {
ServerSocket s;

// Register your service on port 5432
try {
 s = new ServerSocket(5432);
 } catch (IOException e) {
 // ignore
 }

 // Run the listen/accept loop forever
 while (true) {
 try {
 // Wait here and listen for a connection
 Socket s1 = s.accept();

 // Get output stream associated with the socket
 OutputStream s1out = s1.getOutputStream();
 DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(s1out);

 // Send your string!
 dos.writeUTF("Hello Net World!");

 // Close the connection, but not the server socket
 dos.close();
 s1.close();
 } catch (IOException e) {
 // ignore
 }
 }
 }
 }

[JosAH]

No, there is a possiblity that 's' isn't initialized; supposed an exception is thrown
(which you ignore); what would the value of 's' be then?

kind regards,

Jos

[sateesht]

Initialize the ServerSocket Object as below:

Serversocket s=null;


Cheers,
Sateesh.