Programming Socket Question

[paul]

Can anyone tell me how to change the client and server classes so that when I run them whatever is typed in the client window appears on the server window? As it is, it just prints "what's up" and ends.
I need to be able to type, hit enter and have whatever I typed show up on the server window.

Code:

import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.io.*;
//import java.lang.System;

public class Client
{
  public static void main (String args[]){
  	InetAddress ip=null;
  	Socket sock=null;
	try {
		ip = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
		sock = new Socket(ip, 2001);
	} 
	catch (UnknownHostException e1) {
		e1.printStackTrace();
	}
	catch (IOException e2) {
		e2.printStackTrace();
	}
	BufferedWriter dataOut=null;
    String message = "What's Up?\n";

    System.out.println ("Sending "+ message + " ...");
    try{
    	 dataOut = new BufferedWriter (new OutputStreamWriter (sock.getOutputStream ()));
    	 dataOut.write (message, 0, message.length ());
    	 dataOut.flush ();
    	 sock.close ();
    }
    catch(IOException e){
    	System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
  }
}

Code:

import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.io.*;

public class Server
{
  public static void main (String args[])
  {
    ServerSocket serverSock=null;
    Socket sock=null;
    BufferedReader dataIn=null;
    String message;

  	try{
  		serverSock = new ServerSocket (2001);
	}
  	catch (IOException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	}

    System.out.println ("Server starting ...");
    try {
		sock = serverSock.accept();
	}
    catch (IOException e1) {
		e1.printStackTrace();
	}

    try{
		dataIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream()));
		message=dataIn.readLine();
		System.out.println (message);
	    sock.close ();
	}
    catch (IOException e2) {
        System.out.println (e2.getMessage());
	}



    try{
    	serverSock.close ();
	}
    catch(IOException e3) {
		e3.printStackTrace();
	}
  }
}

Thanks.

[brianhks]

On the client wrap System.in in a BufferedReader. Then loop on in.readLine(). Each time you get a line from the command line send it down the socket and call flush but, don't call close().

On the server loop around dataIn.readLine like so.
while (message=dataIn.readLine() != null)
Again leave the socket open.

To end the program and socket look for a keyword on the client like "exit" that will then end the loop and close the socket.

On the server the readLine will either return null or an exception will be thrown and it can end as well.