java timer and socket problem

Question

I\'m trying to make a program which listens to the client input stream by using socket programming and timer

but whenever timer executes.. it gets hanged

Ple

Answer 1

Every call to accept waits for a new client to connect to the server. The call blocks until a connection is established. It sounds like you have a single client that maintains a connection to the server.

One solution is to pull

s=ss.accept();                    
InputStream is=s.getInputStream();
DataInputStream dis=new DataInputStream(is);

outside of the timer portion of the code.

Update: Be aware though that readUTF is still going to block if there is no data available to be read.