I am new to java and I have been testing my application all day long.

I just did

netstat -ano

and it gave me a huge listing of active connections (listening, established) does this mean when i close my appliation these connections are not being shutdown (close())?

here is a screenshot:

any advise on how to go about closing the connection when im done with it? i am trying to close the connection best to my knowledge but it appears im not doing enough.

thanks for your time.