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How to accept socket while reading a DataInputStream? [duplicate]

How do you handle multiple client to connect to one server? I have this LogServer.java
import javax.net.ssl.*;
import javax.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class LogServer {
private static final int PORT_NUM = 5000;
public static void main(String args[]) {
ServerSocketFactory serverSocketFactory =
ServerSocketFactory.getDefault();
ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
try {
serverSocket =
serverSocketFactory.createServerSocket(PORT_NUM);
} catch (IOException ignored) {
System.err.println("Unable to create server");
System.exit(-1);
}
System.out.printf("LogServer running on port: %s%n", PORT_NUM);
while (true) {
Socket socket = null;
try {
socket = serverSocket.accept();
InputStream is = socket.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(is, "US-ASCII"));
String line = null;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
} catch (IOException exception) {
// Just handle next request.
} finally {
if (socket != null) {
try {
socket.close();
} catch (IOException ignored) {
}
}
}
}
}
}
and an embedded applet with part of the code like this e.g
import java.io.*;
import java.util.logging.*;
public class LogTest
{
private static Logger logger = Logger.getAnonymousLogger();
public static void main(String argv[]) throws IOException
{
Handler handler = new SocketHandler("localhost", 5000);
logger.addHandler(handler);
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Hello, World");
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Welcome Home");
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Hello, World");
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Welcome Home");
}
}
now the question is if I run "java LogServer" on the server, it will open the application and waiting for input stream and if I open my site, it will start streaming the log. But if I open one more using other computer/network, the second site does not log the stream. seems like it's because the first one still bind to port 5000.
How do I handle this?
How does socket actually work with multiple client / one server?

For every client you need to start separate thread. Example:
public class ThreadedEchoServer {
static final int PORT = 1978;
public static void main(String args[]) {
ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
Socket socket = null;
try {
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(PORT);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
while (true) {
try {
socket = serverSocket.accept();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("I/O error: " + e);
}
// new thread for a client
new EchoThread(socket).start();
}
}
}
and
public class EchoThread extends Thread {
protected Socket socket;
public EchoThread(Socket clientSocket) {
this.socket = clientSocket;
}
public void run() {
InputStream inp = null;
BufferedReader brinp = null;
DataOutputStream out = null;
try {
inp = socket.getInputStream();
brinp = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inp));
out = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
} catch (IOException e) {
return;
}
String line;
while (true) {
try {
line = brinp.readLine();
if ((line == null) || line.equalsIgnoreCase("QUIT")) {
socket.close();
return;
} else {
out.writeBytes(line + "\n\r");
out.flush();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
}
}
}
You can also go with more advanced solution, that uses NIO selectors, so you will not have to create thread for every client, but that's a bit more complicated.

This is the echo server handling multiple clients... Runs fine and good using Threads
// echo server
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
public class Server_X_Client {
public static void main(String args[]){
Socket s=null;
ServerSocket ss2=null;
System.out.println("Server Listening......");
try{
ss2 = new ServerSocket(4445); // can also use static final PORT_NUM , when defined
}
catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Server error");
}
while(true){
try{
s= ss2.accept();
System.out.println("connection Established");
ServerThread st=new ServerThread(s);
st.start();
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Connection Error");
}
}
}
}
class ServerThread extends Thread{
String line=null;
BufferedReader is = null;
PrintWriter os=null;
Socket s=null;
public ServerThread(Socket s){
this.s=s;
}
public void run() {
try{
is= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
os=new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream());
}catch(IOException e){
System.out.println("IO error in server thread");
}
try {
line=is.readLine();
while(line.compareTo("QUIT")!=0){
os.println(line);
os.flush();
System.out.println("Response to Client : "+line);
line=is.readLine();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
line=this.getName(); //reused String line for getting thread name
System.out.println("IO Error/ Client "+line+" terminated abruptly");
}
catch(NullPointerException e){
line=this.getName(); //reused String line for getting thread name
System.out.println("Client "+line+" Closed");
}
finally{
try{
System.out.println("Connection Closing..");
if (is!=null){
is.close();
System.out.println(" Socket Input Stream Closed");
}
if(os!=null){
os.close();
System.out.println("Socket Out Closed");
}
if (s!=null){
s.close();
System.out.println("Socket Closed");
}
}
catch(IOException ie){
System.out.println("Socket Close Error");
}
}//end finally
}
}
Also here is the code for the client.. Just execute this code for as many times as you want to create multiple client..
// A simple Client Server Protocol .. Client for Echo Server
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
public class NetworkClient {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException{
InetAddress address=InetAddress.getLocalHost();
Socket s1=null;
String line=null;
BufferedReader br=null;
BufferedReader is=null;
PrintWriter os=null;
try {
s1=new Socket(address, 4445); // You can use static final constant PORT_NUM
br= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
is=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s1.getInputStream()));
os= new PrintWriter(s1.getOutputStream());
}
catch (IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.err.print("IO Exception");
}
System.out.println("Client Address : "+address);
System.out.println("Enter Data to echo Server ( Enter QUIT to end):");
String response=null;
try{
line=br.readLine();
while(line.compareTo("QUIT")!=0){
os.println(line);
os.flush();
response=is.readLine();
System.out.println("Server Response : "+response);
line=br.readLine();
}
}
catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Socket read Error");
}
finally{
is.close();os.close();br.close();s1.close();
System.out.println("Connection Closed");
}
}
}

I guess the problem is that you need to start a separate thread for each connection and call serverSocket.accept() in a loop to accept more than one connection.
It is not a problem to have more than one connection on the same port.

See O'Reilly "Java Cookbook", Ian Darwin - recipe 17.4 Handling Multiple Clients.
Pay attention that accept() is not thread safe, so the call is wrapped within synchronized.
64: synchronized(servSock) {
65: clientSocket = servSock.accept();
66: }

Here is code for Multiple Client to one Server Working Fine ..
Give it a try :)
Server.java:
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
class Multi extends Thread{
private Socket s=null;
DataInputStream infromClient;
Multi() throws IOException{
}
Multi(Socket s) throws IOException{
this.s=s;
infromClient = new DataInputStream(s.getInputStream());
}
public void run(){
String SQL=new String();
try {
SQL = infromClient.readUTF();
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Multi.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
System.out.println("Query: " + SQL);
try {
System.out.println("Socket Closing");
s.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Multi.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
}
public class Server {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException,
InterruptedException{
while(true){
ServerSocket ss=new ServerSocket(11111);
System.out.println("Server is Awaiting");
Socket s=ss.accept();
Multi t=new Multi(s);
t.start();
Thread.sleep(2000);
ss.close();
}
}
}
Client1.java:
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
public class client1 {
public static void main(String[] arg) {
try {
Socket socketConnection = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 11111);
//QUERY PASSING
DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(socketConnection.getOutputStream());
String SQL="I am client 1";
outToServer.writeUTF(SQL);
} catch (Exception e) {System.out.println(e); }
}
}
Client2.java
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
public class client2 {
public static void main(String[] arg) {
try {
Socket socketConnection = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 11111);
//QUERY PASSING
DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(socketConnection.getOutputStream());
String SQL="I am Client 2";
outToServer.writeUTF(SQL);
} catch (Exception e) {System.out.println(e); }
}
}

Handle more clients

Right now my server only can handle one client at a time. I am trying to use a Thread so that the server can handle several clients, but I am doing it wrong. I have added the thread in the try/catch clause where the serverSocket accepts the client, but this makes no difference. I don't get an error or anything, but it just doesn't work.
So what I want to do, is make the server not freeze at one client, but still accept several clients.
Here is the server code:
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class Server {
private BufferedReader reader;
private PrintWriter writer;
private int port;
public Server(int port)
{
this.port = port;
}
private String getSeverAddress() {
String host = null;
try {
InetAddress adr = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
host = adr.getHostAddress();
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return host;
}
public void startServer() {
print("Contact this sever on address: " + getSeverAddress() + " port: " + port);
ServerSocket ss = null;
Socket socket = null;
Thread clientThread = null;
try {
ss = new ServerSocket(port);
socket = ss.accept();
clientThread = new Thread(new Client(socket));
clientThread.start();
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
writer = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
String msg = null;
while (( msg = reader.readLine()) != null) {
print("System out: " + msg);
if(msg.equals("Bye")) {
print("Client left");
break;
}
}
ss.close();
socket.close();
reader.close();
writer.close();
} catch(SocketException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException i ) {
i.printStackTrace();
return;
}
}
private void print(String msg) {
System.out.println(msg);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Server server = new Server(1111);
server.startServer();
}
}
Here is the client code:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.Socket;
public class Client implements Runnable{
private Socket client;
private BufferedReader reader;
private PrintWriter writer;
public Client(Socket socket)
{
client = socket;
try{
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(client.getInputStream()));
writer = new PrintWriter(client.getOutputStream(), true);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
}
#Override
public void run() {
String msg = null;
BufferedReader r = null;
try {
r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
} catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Write message to server");
while(true) {
try {
msg = r.readLine();
if(msg.equals("Quit") || msg == null) {
print("Disconnect");
break;
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
writeToServer(msg);
}
try {
r.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public void writeToServer(String msg) {
writer.println(msg);
}
private void print(String msg) {
System.out.println(msg);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Socket socket = null;
try {
socket = new Socket("localhost", 1111);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Client client = new Client(socket);
client.run();
}
}

You are still trying to handle clients in your main thread. Main thread should just accept new connections and start new threads. You also have to do accept in a loop so multiple connections can be accepted:
ss = new ServerSocket(port);
while(true) {
Socket socket = ss.accept();
Thread clientThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
String msg = null;
while (( msg = reader.readLine()) != null) {
print("System out: " + msg);
if(msg.equals("Bye")) {
print("Client left");
break;
}
}
socket.close();
reader.close();
writer.close();
}});
clientThread.start();
}

You need to put your ss.accept() into a while loop and create a new Thread for every client accepted, which handles the connection.

Thread server/client stops after 2nd client joins

I have a server which uses multiple threads to accept multiple clients. I have it at the moment that when a client types something, it appears on the server as Client: text This works fine for 1 client. However the problem is when a second client joins.
They join fine and they can type fine. But the first client can only type 1 more thing then they stop, i.e their messages doesn't appear on the server. I presume they can do 1 as the method has been started but doesn't repeat. I've tried a while (true) loop (as seen in the code) and recalling the method at the end, neither work. I'm new to programming so don't have much expertise in this. Please find the code below :) (Note, indention is correct, just hasn't copied across properly)
Server:
package dod;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import java.io.*;
public class Server implements Runnable
{
PrintWriter out;
BufferedReader in;
Socket clientSocket;
ServerSocket serverSocket;
int portNumber;
AtomicInteger numClients = new AtomicInteger(0);
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Server s = new Server();
s.startup();
}
public void run()
{}
/**
* Start the server on the user picked port
*/
public void startup()
{
try
{
System.out.println("Enter a port");
Scanner dif = new Scanner(System.in);
portNumber = Integer.parseInt(dif.nextLine());
dif.close();
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(portNumber);
newThread();
}
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error");
System.exit(0);
}
}
public void newThread()
{
Thread thread =new Thread("C"+numClients.getAndIncrement())
{
public void run()
{
accept();
}
};
thread.start();
}
public void accept()
{
try
{
clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
System.out.println("A new client has just connected.");
} catch(IOException e)
{
System.out.println("error");
System.exit(0);
}
newThread();
listenCommand();
}
public void listenCommand()
{
while (true)
{
try
{
out = new PrintWriter(clientSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
String userInput;
while ((userInput = in.readLine()) != null)
{
System.out.println("client: " + userInput);
}
} catch (IOException e)
{
System.out.println("Error");
System.exit(0);
}
}
}
}
Client:
package dod;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class Client
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String hostName = args[0];
int portNumber = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
try {
Socket serverSocket = new Socket(hostName, portNumber);
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(serverSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(serverSocket.getInputStream()));
BufferedReader stdIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String userInput;
while ((userInput = stdIn.readLine()) != null)
{
out.println(userInput);
}
} catch(UnknownHostException e) {
System.out.println("error in host");
} catch(IOException e) {
System.out.println("error in IO");
}
}
}
Thank you! :)

*emphasized text*In the Server class you should have a Thread listening for new clients arriving and assigning them their own socket. You have the socket and the streams as a member variables, so everytime a new client comes you replace the socket. Also you open a new Thread for the accept connection, instead for the client itself.
Check the following (See that the client socket is another thread and I created a Runnable for it):
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
public class Server
{
ServerSocket serverSocket;
int portNumber;
AtomicInteger numClients = new AtomicInteger(0);
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Server s = new Server();
s.startup();
}
/**
* Start the server on the user picked port
*/
public void startup()
{
try
{
System.out.println("Enter a port");
Scanner dif = new Scanner(System.in);
portNumber = Integer.parseInt(dif.nextLine());
dif.close();
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(portNumber);
newThread();
}
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error");
System.exit(0);
}
}
public void newThread()
{
Thread thread =new Thread("C"+numClients.getAndIncrement())
{
public void run()
{
while(true) {
try {
accept();
} catch (Exception e) {
// lof the exception
}
}
}
};
thread.start();
}
public void accept()
{
try
{
Socket clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
new Thread(new ClientSocket(clientSocket)).start();
System.out.println("A new client has just connected.");
} catch(IOException e)
{
System.out.println("User disconnected");
System.exit(0);
}
}
class ClientSocket implements Runnable {
Socket clientSocket;
public ClientSocket(Socket clientSocket) {
this.clientSocket = clientSocket;
}
public void run() {
{
try
{
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(clientSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
String userInput;
while ((userInput = in.readLine()) != null)
{
System.out.println("client: " + userInput);
}
} catch (IOException e)
{
System.out.println("Error. Probably client disconnected");
// System.exit(0); do you want to exist when a client disconnects?
}
}
}
}
}

socket programming multiple client to one server

How do you handle multiple client to connect to one server? I have this LogServer.java
import javax.net.ssl.*;
import javax.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class LogServer {
private static final int PORT_NUM = 5000;
public static void main(String args[]) {
ServerSocketFactory serverSocketFactory =
ServerSocketFactory.getDefault();
ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
try {
serverSocket =
serverSocketFactory.createServerSocket(PORT_NUM);
} catch (IOException ignored) {
System.err.println("Unable to create server");
System.exit(-1);
}
System.out.printf("LogServer running on port: %s%n", PORT_NUM);
while (true) {
Socket socket = null;
try {
socket = serverSocket.accept();
InputStream is = socket.getInputStream();
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(is, "US-ASCII"));
String line = null;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
} catch (IOException exception) {
// Just handle next request.
} finally {
if (socket != null) {
try {
socket.close();
} catch (IOException ignored) {
}
}
}
}
}
}
and an embedded applet with part of the code like this e.g
import java.io.*;
import java.util.logging.*;
public class LogTest
{
private static Logger logger = Logger.getAnonymousLogger();
public static void main(String argv[]) throws IOException
{
Handler handler = new SocketHandler("localhost", 5000);
logger.addHandler(handler);
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Hello, World");
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Welcome Home");
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Hello, World");
logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Welcome Home");
}
}
now the question is if I run "java LogServer" on the server, it will open the application and waiting for input stream and if I open my site, it will start streaming the log. But if I open one more using other computer/network, the second site does not log the stream. seems like it's because the first one still bind to port 5000.
How do I handle this?
How does socket actually work with multiple client / one server?

For every client you need to start separate thread. Example:
public class ThreadedEchoServer {
static final int PORT = 1978;
public static void main(String args[]) {
ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
Socket socket = null;
try {
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(PORT);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
while (true) {
try {
socket = serverSocket.accept();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("I/O error: " + e);
}
// new thread for a client
new EchoThread(socket).start();
}
}
}
and
public class EchoThread extends Thread {
protected Socket socket;
public EchoThread(Socket clientSocket) {
this.socket = clientSocket;
}
public void run() {
InputStream inp = null;
BufferedReader brinp = null;
DataOutputStream out = null;
try {
inp = socket.getInputStream();
brinp = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inp));
out = new DataOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
} catch (IOException e) {
return;
}
String line;
while (true) {
try {
line = brinp.readLine();
if ((line == null) || line.equalsIgnoreCase("QUIT")) {
socket.close();
return;
} else {
out.writeBytes(line + "\n\r");
out.flush();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
}
}
}
You can also go with more advanced solution, that uses NIO selectors, so you will not have to create thread for every client, but that's a bit more complicated.

This is the echo server handling multiple clients... Runs fine and good using Threads
// echo server
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
public class Server_X_Client {
public static void main(String args[]){
Socket s=null;
ServerSocket ss2=null;
System.out.println("Server Listening......");
try{
ss2 = new ServerSocket(4445); // can also use static final PORT_NUM , when defined
}
catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Server error");
}
while(true){
try{
s= ss2.accept();
System.out.println("connection Established");
ServerThread st=new ServerThread(s);
st.start();
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Connection Error");
}
}
}
}
class ServerThread extends Thread{
String line=null;
BufferedReader is = null;
PrintWriter os=null;
Socket s=null;
public ServerThread(Socket s){
this.s=s;
}
public void run() {
try{
is= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
os=new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream());
}catch(IOException e){
System.out.println("IO error in server thread");
}
try {
line=is.readLine();
while(line.compareTo("QUIT")!=0){
os.println(line);
os.flush();
System.out.println("Response to Client : "+line);
line=is.readLine();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
line=this.getName(); //reused String line for getting thread name
System.out.println("IO Error/ Client "+line+" terminated abruptly");
}
catch(NullPointerException e){
line=this.getName(); //reused String line for getting thread name
System.out.println("Client "+line+" Closed");
}
finally{
try{
System.out.println("Connection Closing..");
if (is!=null){
is.close();
System.out.println(" Socket Input Stream Closed");
}
if(os!=null){
os.close();
System.out.println("Socket Out Closed");
}
if (s!=null){
s.close();
System.out.println("Socket Closed");
}
}
catch(IOException ie){
System.out.println("Socket Close Error");
}
}//end finally
}
}
Also here is the code for the client.. Just execute this code for as many times as you want to create multiple client..
// A simple Client Server Protocol .. Client for Echo Server
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
public class NetworkClient {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException{
InetAddress address=InetAddress.getLocalHost();
Socket s1=null;
String line=null;
BufferedReader br=null;
BufferedReader is=null;
PrintWriter os=null;
try {
s1=new Socket(address, 4445); // You can use static final constant PORT_NUM
br= new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
is=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s1.getInputStream()));
os= new PrintWriter(s1.getOutputStream());
}
catch (IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.err.print("IO Exception");
}
System.out.println("Client Address : "+address);
System.out.println("Enter Data to echo Server ( Enter QUIT to end):");
String response=null;
try{
line=br.readLine();
while(line.compareTo("QUIT")!=0){
os.println(line);
os.flush();
response=is.readLine();
System.out.println("Server Response : "+response);
line=br.readLine();
}
}
catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Socket read Error");
}
finally{
is.close();os.close();br.close();s1.close();
System.out.println("Connection Closed");
}
}
}

I guess the problem is that you need to start a separate thread for each connection and call serverSocket.accept() in a loop to accept more than one connection.
It is not a problem to have more than one connection on the same port.

See O'Reilly "Java Cookbook", Ian Darwin - recipe 17.4 Handling Multiple Clients.
Pay attention that accept() is not thread safe, so the call is wrapped within synchronized.
64: synchronized(servSock) {
65: clientSocket = servSock.accept();
66: }

Here is code for Multiple Client to one Server Working Fine ..
Give it a try :)
Server.java:
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
class Multi extends Thread{
private Socket s=null;
DataInputStream infromClient;
Multi() throws IOException{
}
Multi(Socket s) throws IOException{
this.s=s;
infromClient = new DataInputStream(s.getInputStream());
}
public void run(){
String SQL=new String();
try {
SQL = infromClient.readUTF();
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Multi.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
System.out.println("Query: " + SQL);
try {
System.out.println("Socket Closing");
s.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(Multi.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}
}
public class Server {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException,
InterruptedException{
while(true){
ServerSocket ss=new ServerSocket(11111);
System.out.println("Server is Awaiting");
Socket s=ss.accept();
Multi t=new Multi(s);
t.start();
Thread.sleep(2000);
ss.close();
}
}
}
Client1.java:
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
public class client1 {
public static void main(String[] arg) {
try {
Socket socketConnection = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 11111);
//QUERY PASSING
DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(socketConnection.getOutputStream());
String SQL="I am client 1";
outToServer.writeUTF(SQL);
} catch (Exception e) {System.out.println(e); }
}
}
Client2.java
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
public class client2 {
public static void main(String[] arg) {
try {
Socket socketConnection = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 11111);
//QUERY PASSING
DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(socketConnection.getOutputStream());
String SQL="I am Client 2";
outToServer.writeUTF(SQL);
} catch (Exception e) {System.out.println(e); }
}
}

java chat socket trouble

I am working on multi chat in java. I'm kinda new to this socket thing.
There is a problem with my code but I can't find it. I think the problem is in clientSocket.getInputStream(); . I inserted System.out.println before and after this statement. I can't see the second one. It seems that client can connect to port but cannot get inputs from server. If you can help me, I really would be thankful. It has been 3 hours but still I can't find the problem
ClientSide.java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
public class ClientSide
{
public Socket clientSocket;
public ObjectOutputStream outStream;
public ObjectInputStream inStream;
public String receiveMessage=null,sendMessage=null;
public GuiScreen gui;
public void run()
{
try
{
clientSocket = new Socket("localhost", 2222);
inStream = new ObjectInputStream(clientSocket.getInputStream());
outStream = new ObjectOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
outStream.flush();
while(true)
{
try
{
receiveMessage = (String)inStream.readObject();
gui.appendMessage(receiveMessage);
}
catch(ClassNotFoundException classNot)
{System.err.println("data received in unknown format");}
}
}
catch(UnknownHostException unknownHost)
{System.err.println("You are trying to connect to an unknown host!");}
catch(IOException ioException)
{ioException.printStackTrace();}
}
public String readMessage()
{
String text = "";
try
{
text = (String)inStream.readObject();
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException | IOException e)
{e.printStackTrace();}
return text;
}
public void sendMessage(String msg)
{
try
{
outStream.writeObject(msg);
outStream.flush();
}
catch(IOException ioException){ioException.printStackTrace();}
}
public ClientSide()
{}
private void showGui()
{
gui = new GuiScreen(this,"Client Side");
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
ClientSide client = new ClientSide();
client.showGui();
client.run();
}
}
MultiCheatServer.java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
public class MultiChatServer
{
public static ClientThread[] clientThreads = new ClientThread[10];
public static int portNumber = 2222;
public static ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
public static Socket clientSocket = null;
public static void openPort()
{
try
{
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(portNumber);
}
catch (IOException e)
{e.printStackTrace();}
}
public static void connectToClients()
{
while(true)
{
try
{
clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
}
catch (IOException e)
{e.printStackTrace();}
for(int i = 0; i<=9; ++i)
{
if(clientThreads[i] == null)
{
clientThreads[i] = new ClientThread(clientSocket,clientThreads);
clientThreads[i].start();
break;
}
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
openPort();
connectToClients();
}
}
ClientThread.java
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.net.Socket;
public class ClientThread extends Thread
{
public ObjectInputStream inStream = null;
public ObjectOutputStream outStream = null;
public Socket clientSocket;
public ClientThread[] clientThreads;
public ClientThread (Socket cSocket,ClientThread[] cThreads)
{
clientSocket = cSocket;
clientThreads = cThreads;
}
public void sendMessage(String msg)
{
try
{
outStream.writeObject(msg);
outStream.flush();
}
catch (IOException e)
{e.printStackTrace();}
}
public String readMessage()
{
String text = null;
try
{
text = (String)inStream.readObject();
}
catch (ClassNotFoundException | IOException e)
{e.printStackTrace();}
return text;
}
public void run()
{
String text;
String name;
try
{
inStream = new ObjectInputStream(clientSocket.getInputStream());
outStream= new ObjectOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
outStream.flush();
sendMessage("Name:\n");
name = readMessage().trim();
sendMessage("type /quit if you want to quit\n");
for(int i = 0 ; i <=9 ; ++i)
if(clientThreads[i]!=null && clientThreads[i]!=this)
clientThreads[i].sendMessage(name + "has come\n");
while(true)
{
text = readMessage() ;
if(text.startsWith("/quit"))
break;
for(int i = 0; i<=9; ++i)
if(clientThreads[i] != null)
clientThreads[i].sendMessage("<" + name + ">" + text);
}
for(int i = 0 ;i<=9; ++i)
if(clientThreads[i]!=null && clientThreads[i]!=this)
clientThreads[i].sendMessage(name + " has disconnected\n");
sendMessage("Bye\n");
inStream.close();
outStream.close();
for(int i = 0;i<=9;++i)
if(clientThreads[i]==this)
clientThreads[i] = null;
}
catch (IOException e)
{e.printStackTrace();}
}
}

One problem I see is that you have to decide who creates the input stream first, the server or the client.
ObjectInputStream tries to read a serialization header in its constructor, and if the output stream has not written it yet it will wait. Now both client and server are waiting for the other to "speak" first.