I haven't learned XML yet, but I agree that that would be a better way. Could you be a little more specific on whay you mean by 'cast your strings and integers as they are digested'.
--Thanks for your help --Monte Glenn Gardner On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Godbey, David wrote: > 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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
