[jdev] Regarding JSO and Threads

[Merwin Pinto]

Hi,

I was writing a program for a Chat Server as a college assignment  

using Java Swing and JSO package ...... now by using threads, the server can possibly handle about 700 to 800 clients. Each client has a thread running on its behalf. this is b coz a single runtime can handle just as many threads . 
Now my question is : 
1)  Is there a principle or a method by which i have the server handle   more number of clients connecting ? may be a few thousand clients...
2) Jabberd Server is written in C is there a server code written in Java ?

thanks a lot
regards
Merwin