Java sockets: DataOutputStream or OutputStream?

Question

I\'m still relatively new to sockets, and I haven\'t seen any information regarding this subject.

To write to a connected socket, you can either use

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Answer 1

Just now I came to know a difference between dataoutputstream and outputstreamwriter while working with a SOAP services... I tried to pass arabic data through request XML but in the response XML I'm getting some junk characters in place of arabic data then I tried to encode (UTF-8) the request but there is no such method to encode in DataOutputStream where as you can encode the request in OutputStreamWriter before sending the request. OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(con.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8"); out.write(inputXML);