If I leave an Application using Stroke running for a few hours(making periodic connection attempts), the JVM would throw an Exception saying "Too Many Open Files". On doing an "lsof -p <pid_of_jvm>", I noticed that there were number of open sockets in CLOSE_WAIT state and these went up after every attempt to do a connect on CoreClient object. Closing of DirContext object fixes this bug and the number of open sockets does not increase. Test-information: Ran MLC and kept on monitoring the result of "lsof -p <pid>". It would not increase after this patch.