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Muti - threaded Web Server in Java

I'm trying to build a server with Java.
My question is: how to do if I have multiple users at the same time? The answer is: multi threading. But I don't know how to do.
For example, if there is two client connected at the same time, and a server (who does 2*number) : if the client1 say "50" to the server and the client 2 "10", the server is supposed to return "100" to the first client and "20" to the second. But i'm not sure my code works.
Server side:
public class Server {
public static void main(String[] args){
ServerSocket socket;
try {
socket = new ServerSocket(4444);
Thread t = new Thread(new Accept(socket));
t.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
class Accept implements Runnable {
private ServerSocket socketserver;
private Socket socket;
private int nbrclient = 1;
public Accept(ServerSocket s){
socketserver = s;
}
public void run() {
try {
socket = socketserver.accept();
in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (socket.getInputStream()));
String message = in.readLine();
System.out.println(message);
out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
out.println("Pong");
out.flush();
socket.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Client side:
public class Client {
public static void main(String[] zero) {
Socket socket;
BufferedReader in;
PrintWriter out;
try {
socket = new Socket(InetAddress.getLocalHost(),4444);
out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
out.println("Ping");
out.flush();
in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (socket.getInputStream()));
String message = in.readLine();
System.out.println(message);
socket.close();
}catch (UnknownHostException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
If you have any ideas (how to do multi-threading and how to verify if my code works, like run two Clients.java and check if the multi-threading works)

The Server sides needs a while loop:
public class Server {
public static void main(String[] args){
ServerSocket socket;
try {
while(true){
socket = new ServerSocket(4444);
Socket socketInstance = socket.accept();
Thread t = new Thread(new Accept(socketInstance));
t.start();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
class Accept implements Runnable {
private Socket socket;
private int nbrclient = 1;
public Accept(Socket s){
socket = s;
}
public void run() {
try {
in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (socket.getInputStream()));
String message = in.readLine();
System.out.println(message);//this message should be your number
Double number = Double.parseString(message);
out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
//out.println("Pong");
out.println(2*number +"");
out.flush();
socket.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
The client side looks ok. Just replace out.println("Ping"); with out.println("50"); or whatever you want.
You first start the server and then you can start multiple client applications. If you have any errors you can then post them here and have a look on an exact scenario.

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.

Try-with-resources closes sockets of spawned childs

I want to write a simple server that listens on a port and spawns new threads for handling new connections.
I attempted to use try-with-resources for accepting new connections but failed because sockets in child threads seem to be closed immediately and I don't understand why.
Here are 2 simplified examples.
a) The working example of the server (without try-with-resources):
package MyTest;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
public class MyServerA implements Runnable {
private int port;
private ServerSocket serverSocket;
public MyServerA(Integer port) {
this.port = port;
}
#Override
public void run() {
try {
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(port);
} catch(IOException ioe) {
System.err.println("error opening socket. " + ioe.getStackTrace());
}
while (true) {
Socket clientSocket = null;
try {
clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
ClientServiceThread cliThread = new ClientServiceThread(clientSocket);
cliThread.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
class ClientServiceThread extends Thread {
private Socket s;
boolean goOn = true;
ClientServiceThread(Socket s) {
this.s = s;
}
public void run() {
BufferedReader in = null;
PrintWriter out = null;
try {
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(this.s.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(this.s.getOutputStream()));
while (goOn) {
final String req = in.readLine();
if (req != null) {
System.out.println("got: " + req);
out.println("you said: " + req);
out.flush();
if (req.contains("bye")) {
System.out.println("closing thread");
goOn = false;
}
}
}
s.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
MyServerA a = new MyServerA(30000);
a.run();
}
}
b) Exactly the same, but with try-with-resources (doesn't work):
package MyTest;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
public class MyServerB implements Runnable {
private int port;
private ServerSocket serverSocket;
public MyServerB(Integer port) {
this.port = port;
}
#Override
public void run() {
try {
serverSocket = new ServerSocket(port);
} catch(IOException ioe) {
System.err.println("error opening socket. " + ioe.getStackTrace());
}
while (true) {
try (Socket clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();) {
ClientServiceThread cliThread = new ClientServiceThread(clientSocket);
cliThread.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
class ClientServiceThread extends Thread {
private Socket s;
boolean goOn = true;
ClientServiceThread(Socket s) {
this.s = s;
}
public void run() {
BufferedReader in = null;
PrintWriter out = null;
try {
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(this.s.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(this.s.getOutputStream()));
while (goOn) {
final String req = in.readLine();
if (req != null) {
System.out.println("got: " + req);
out.println("you said: " + req);
out.flush();
if (req.contains("bye")) {
System.out.println("closing thread");
goOn = false;
}
}
}
s.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
MyServerB b = new MyServerB(30000);
b.run();
}
}
The example in a) works like expected.
The example in b) accepts a connection but closes it immediately.
Can someone explain to me why and tell me how I do this properly?

The structure
try (resource = ...) {
}
is equivalent to
resource = null;
try {
resource = ...;
} finally {
if (resource != null) {
resource.close();
}
}
That's it. It is just a syntactic sugar, just shorter way to write the same. So, when you put statement Socket clientSocket = serverSocket.accept(); into try-with-resource block you actually close it once you leave the block.
This structure is good when processing of stream is done synchronously, i.e. when you open stream, read or write and close it.
In your case you get the stream and process it in separate thread and therefore cannot close it immediately. Client should decide to close the stream itself. For example when user press button "disconnect" or when server sends special application level command "close connection" or if IOException is thrown.

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?
}
}
}
}
}

Help with first networking program

Here's the code.
public class testClient {
public static void main(String[] args) {
testClient abc = new testClient();
abc.go();
}
public void go() {
try {
Socket s = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 5000);
InputStreamReader sr = new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream());
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(sr);
String x = reader.readLine();
System.out.println(x);
reader.close();
} catch(IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public class testServer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
testServer server = new testServer();
server.go();
}
public void go() {
try {
ServerSocket s = new ServerSocket(5000);
while(true) {
Socket sock = s.accept();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(sock.getOutputStream());
String toReturn = "No cake for you.";
writer.println(toReturn);
}
} catch(IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
java.io.* and java.net.* are imported in both classes.
Now, when I try to run these(using different terminals), nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
Screen: http://i29.tinypic.com/250qlmt.jpg

When using PrintWriter you need to call flush method. Changed your code to following and it works :).
public class testServer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
testServer server = new testServer();
server.go();
}
public void go() {
try {
ServerSocket s = new ServerSocket(5000);
while(true) {
Socket sock = s.accept();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(sock.getOutputStream());
String toReturn = "No cake for you.";
writer.println(toReturn);
writer.flush();
}
} catch(IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Your output is apparently buffered. After writing your output, try flushing:
writer.println(toReturn);
writer.flush();
Also, you may consider calling sock.close() in your server if you're done with the socket, otherwise the client will be left wondering what to do next.

Check out this simple working example.
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Server {
Server() throws IOException {
ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket( 4711 );
while ( true ) {
Socket client = server.accept();
InputStream in = client.getInputStream();
OutputStream out = client.getOutputStream();
int multiplikator1 = in.read();
int multiplikator2 = in.read();
int resultat = multiplikator1 * multiplikator2;
out.write(resultat);
}
public static void main (String[] args) {
try {
Server server = new Server();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Client {
Client() throws IOException {
Socket server = new Socket ( "localhost", 4711 );
InputStream in = server.getInputStream();
OutputStream out = server.getOutputStream();
out.write( 4 );
out.write( 9 );
int result = in.read();
System.out.println( result );
server.close();
}
public static void main (String[] args) {
try {
Client client = new Client();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Close the writer.