[Albert]

I am writing a SalesmanClient and a SalesmanServer, everything is working great so far, but I am a little stuck now. I have a GUI that pops up when I run the SalesmanClient that lets a user enter sales data, change sales data, read a text file, write a text file, write objects to a file and read those objects and prints them to the output text area. Now that all of that is working, I want to change the writing objects part.

I have a writeObjectFile() method that writes the objects to a file, but what I would rather do is send that vector to the server and let the server write the objects to a file and then print that information to the Command Prompt as well. Is this something anyone could give me a few hints on? If this doesn’t make sense, just let me know and I will either post some more code for you or try to explain a little bit better.
Here is the SalesmanServer:

Code:

import java.io.*;
 import java.net.*;
 
 public class SalesmanServer
 {
 	public static void main (String args[])
 	{
 		ServerSocket serverSocket;
 
 		try {
 			serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8000);
 
 			int clientNo = 1;
 
 			while (true)
 			{
 			Socket connectToClient = serverSocket.accept();
 
 			System.out.println("Start thread for client " + clientNo);
 
 			HandleClient thread = new HandleClient(clientNo, connectToClient);
 
 			clientNo++;
 			
 			thread.start();
 			}
 		}
 
 		catch(IOException ex)
 		{}
 	}
 }
 
 class HandleClient extends Thread
 {
 	int clientNumber;
 	Socket client;
 	public HandleClient(int num, Socket connectToClient)
 	{
 		clientNumber = num;
 		client = connectToClient;
 	}
 
 	public void run()
 	{
 		try
 		{
 			BufferedReader fromClient = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(client.getInputStream()));
 
 			PrintWriter toClient = new PrintWriter(client.getOutputStream(),true);
 
 			while (true)
 			{
 
 			}
 		}
 		catch(IOException ex){}
 	}
 }

WriteObjectFile():

Code:

public void writeObjectFile()
 	{
 		try
 		{
 			ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("SalesmanThread" + String.valueOf(SalesmanClient.i) + ".data"));
 		     
 			try
 			{
 				for (Salesman s : salesmanList)
 				{
 					oos.writeObject(s);
 				}
 			}
 			finally
 			{
 				oos.close();
 			}
 		}
 		catch(IOException ioe)
 		{
 	            ioe.printStackTrace();
 	    }
 		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, " Your file has been written as objects, to view it go to Read File - Object File!!", "Text File Read", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
 	}

SalesmanClient:

Code:

public static void main (String args[])
 	{	
 		try
 		{
 			SalesmanClient app = new SalesmanClient();
 			app.setSize(700,450);
 			app.setVisible(true);
 			app.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);	
 			
 			Socket server = new Socket("localhost", 8000);
 			System.out.println("Connected to Server:" + server.getInetAddress());
 
 			BufferedReader fromServer = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(server.getInputStream()));
 
 			PrintWriter toServer = new PrintWriter(server.getOutputStream(),true);
 
 			BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
 
 			while (true)
 			{
 				
 			}
 		}
 		catch (IOException ex)
 		{	
 			System.err.println(ex);
 		}
 	}

Thanks.

Albert