Server doesn't receive message in client-server application

Question

In my client-server application, the client sends message to Server and the Server should display the message. But in my case, the client is only able to send but the server can't achieve it.

I have tried with different port numbers (i.e. 8080, 8000, 4444 etc). It seems that the socket can set up the connection, but I really don't know why the server can't read the input from client.

This is my complete project (I have ignored the main classes for both application here, because I have nothing more than just calling the methods):

EchoServer.java:

    package client.server;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class EchoServer {

    public EchoServer() {
    }

    public void establish() {
        ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
        try {

            serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8080);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Could not listen on port: 1234");
            System.exit(-1);
        }
        Socket clientSocket = null;
        try {
            clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Accept failed: 1234");
            System.exit(-1);
        }
        PrintWriter out = null;
        BufferedReader in = null;
        try {
            out = new PrintWriter(
                    clientSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
            in = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(
                            clientSocket.getInputStream()));
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println("Failed in creating streams");
            System.exit(-1);
        }
        String inputLine, outputLine;
        try {
            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
                out.println(inputLine);
                if (inputLine.equals("Bye.")) {
                    break;
                }
            }
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println("Failed in reading, writing");
            System.exit(-1);
        }
        try {
            clientSocket.close();
            serverSocket.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Could not close");
            System.exit(-1);
        }
    }
}

EchoClient.java:

    package server.client;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class EchoClient {

    public EchoClient() {
    }

    public void establish() {
        Socket echoSocket = null;
        PrintWriter out = null;
        BufferedReader in = null;
        try {
            //echoSocket = new Socket(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 1234);
            echoSocket = new Socket(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), 8080);
            out = new PrintWriter(echoSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    echoSocket.getInputStream()));
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            System.err.println("Don't know about host.");
            System.exit(1);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Couldn't get I/O");
            System.exit(1);
        }
        BufferedReader stdIn = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String userInput;
        try {
            while ((userInput = stdIn.readLine()) != null) {
                out.println(userInput);
                if (userInput.equals("Bye.")) {
                    break;
                }
                System.out.println("echo: " + in.readLine());
            }
            out.close();
            in.close();
            stdIn.close();
            echoSocket.close();
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println("Failed");
            System.exit(
                    -1);

        }

    }
}

Answer 1

Your server doesn't write the incoming text to the console but only back to the client which doesn't handle incoming text from the server yet.

(out isn't System.out but Socket.out!)