BufferedReader readLine method hangs and block program

Question

I\'m trying to learn sockets using Java and I sucessfully sent data to a ServerSocket running in my own machine. When I try to read from this socket using readline (so I can

Answer 1

The problem is that readLine tries reading a line. It will not return the line until it's sure that the end of line has been reached. This means that it expects either a newline character, or the end of the communication. Since the server doesn't send any newline char and doesn't close the stream, the client waits indefinitely.

Answer 2

writeUTF() doesn't write a line. See the Javadoc. writeUTF() is for use with readUTF(). And Readers are for use with Writers. So change the DataOutputStream to a BufferedWriter and call write() and then newline().

Answer 3

cli.ostream.writeUTF("Teste");

Shouldn't this be containing a new line? Otherwise read method will be waiting for new line I think.

Also as suggested you can try flushing the ostream after writing to it.