Stability of connection

[David Patterson <pa...@gmail.com>]

I'm running a web service on one machine and using
zookeeper/hadoop/accumulo to get to a remote machine where my data resides.

How can I get notified if the connection drops?

Does it self-establish or do I need to do something special to reconnect?

I plan to keep the ZookeeperInstance and Connector as permanent,
established when my class first gets control, and just create a scanner to
retrieve the specific data I want. I'll destroy the scanner when I've
retrieved a collection of data.

Is that a reasonable way to approach this problem?

Thanks

Dave Patterson