Question

Essentially I want a basic Java Server which multiple people can be connected to and when one of the connected clients (Already coded in Obj-c) sends data to it, it sends it back to everyone who is connected.

I’m a real Java Newbie and I’m not going to need Java in the forseeable future for anything but this so I want it out the way as soon as possible rather than learning Java properly from scratch. So if anyone has some source code for this or perhaps a tutorial it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks 🙂
Ozzie

Answer 1

Here is a simple “Knock Knock” server courtesy of Sun:

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

public class KnockKnockServer {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
        try {
            serverSocket = new ServerSocket(4444);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Could not listen on port: 4444.");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        Socket clientSocket = null;
        try {
            clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Accept failed.");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(clientSocket.getOutputStream(), true);
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader(
                clientSocket.getInputStream()));
        String inputLine, outputLine;
        KnockKnockProtocol kkp = new KnockKnockProtocol();

        outputLine = kkp.processInput(null);
        out.println(outputLine);

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
             outputLine = kkp.processInput(inputLine);
             out.println(outputLine);
             if (outputLine.equals("Bye."))
                break;
        }
        out.close();
        in.close();
        clientSocket.close();
        serverSocket.close();
    }
}

You can’t get much simpler than this.