soap over tcp

[Srilekha Mudumbai]

Group,

This is what I am trying to do and I am unable to read the last line of 
the SOAP
message.

---- on the client side ----
SOAPMessage msg; //created and loaded with contents
msg.writeTo(socket.getOutputStream());
socket.getOutputStream().flush();
----- on the server side -----
SOAPPart sp // obtained from the soap message
sp.setContent(new StreamSource(socket.getInputStream());  // this 
approach hangs invariably

Hence tried using BufferedReader for the socket input stream

while  (buffreader.readLine() != null) {
   // print line
}
this waits indefinitely for the </soap:Envelope> ( the last line of the 
soap message)
When I kill the client, the server gets it. I do not want to close the 
client socket.
I would like to keep it open.

Any suggestions?

Regards
Srilekha