Question

A server software my client communicates with regularly sends transaction messages on port 4000. I need to print those messages to the console line by line. (Eventually I will have to write those values to a table, but I’m saving that for later.)

I tried this code but it doesn’t output anything:

package merchanttransaction;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.lang.ClassNotFoundException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class MerchantTransaction {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            InetAddress host = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
            Socket socket = new Socket("192.168.1.104", 4000);
            ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
            String message = (String) ois.readObject();
            System.out.println("Message: " + message);

            ois.close();
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

By the way, I need to be able to monitor that port until the program terminates. I’m not sure if the code above will be able to do that because I don’t see any iteration to the code.

I’m using Java version 1.6.0_24, SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_24-b07) running on Ubuntu.

Answer 1

You need to use a ServerSocket. You can find an explanation here.