What you describe will certainly work. On the receiving end you would need to cast your strings and integers as they are digested. Depending on how clever you are, though, you might have to pair the sender and receiver. However, have you considered using XML? You could create a general purpose tool to send arbitrary sets of variables with their values. Using schema, you can even type them on the sending side. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Gardner Monte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DataOutputStream I'm planning a series of communications between a Java Application, and a Java Servlet. The client needs to send a integer, then two different strings to the Servlet. What I'm thinking of doing is using dataInputStreams and DataOutputStreams and their corresponding writeInt, and writeChars methods. However, I don't think the dataInput stream on the server side will be able to automatically detect where one string ends and another begins, so I'm thinking of putting some standard delimeter between the strings, and then using StringTokenizer to split them back up once they arrive at the server. Will this work, or is there a better way to send a combination of integers and Strings between two applications? --Monte Glenn Gardner ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
