Socket programming help

hi,

ok this is what i'm trying to do. i'm trying a simple server/client program to send a string and then an object(vector). i can send them both seperately but not both together. anyone know why?

on the server side i have
sock = new ServerSocket(serverPort);
clientSocket = sock.accept();

o = new DataOutputStream (new BufferedOutputStream (clientSocket.getOutputStream ()));
vectorObj = new ObjectOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());

Vector handlers = new Vector();
handlers.addElement("bananas");
handlers.addElement("milk");
handlers.addElement("coffee");

o.writeUTF ("blah blah");
o.flush();
vectorObj.writeObject(handlers);

clientSocket.close();
sock.close();

and on the client side i first read the string (blah blah) and it works fine, but when i try to read the object it doesn't work.
if i comment out o.writeUTF ("blah blah"); and o.flush(); i can then read the object....

any ideas? cheers
ciaran

It sounds like you're doing the correct thing but we need a complete code sample. It's very difficult to determine what the issue is with just a partial sample.

I suspect that you accidentally read a part of the object as well and thus "corrupt" the object in the stream...

You should be able to send String objects through the ObjectOutputStream. Try that and see if it helps.