What does 'end of stream' mean when working with sockets

Question

When working with Sockets in Java, how can you tell whether the client has finished sending all (binary) data, before you could start processing them. Consider for example:

Answer 1

As some ppl already said you can't avoid some kind of protocol for communication. It should look like this for example:

On the server side you have:

 void sendMSG(PrintWriter out){
    try {
        //just for example..
        Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir C:");
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
            p.getInputStream()));

        //and then send all this crap to the client
        String s = "";
        while ((s = br.readLine()) != null) {
          out.println("MSG");
          out.println(s);
        }
      } catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Command incorrect!");
      }
      out.println("END");
}
//You are not supposed to close the stream or the socket, because you might want to send smth else later..

On the client side you have:

void recieveMSG(BufferedReader in) {
    try {
      while (in.readLine().equals("MSG")) {
        System.out.println(in.readLine());
      }
    } catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("Connection closed!");
    }
  }