using sockets from within my servlet

[Neil Goldsmith]

I have a servlet that connects to a legacy server via a socket connection. it then reads/writes over this socket. It works fine in Tomcat, but I've ported the servlet over to Websphere and I can't seem to write to the socket. It connects just fine, but when I go to Write, the server never reads anything and I don't have any errors.

The code is pretty simple socket stuff. This part lives in my servlet:

outString = outString.concat(new String(outBuffer));
try{
     System.out.println("Writing:" + outString);    
     output.write(outString.getBytes(),0,1024);
}
catch(IOException e){
    System.out.println("error writing:" + e);    
}  

This code lives in my Server which is just a POJO:

   try {
input.read(buffer, 0 , 1024);
ParseMessage(buffer);
return true;
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
if(shutdown == true)
   return false;
writeLogOut("VOX simulator: Error reading socket: " + e);
     }

Like I said, I don't hit any exceptions. The servlet sends off his message in the write, but the server never gets anything to read in the buffer.

Is this a problem in Websphere? Do I need to configure anything?

thanks

[William Brogden]

Is it possible that the output flush method must be called?
How does the sever end determine that it has gotten a complete transmission?
Bill