multi sockets opening in one client

[Roy Huang]

Is it possible to open mutiple sockets from a client(ex. applet)
to communicate with sevral servers?
If I want to keep 2 sockets with separate ports working simutaneously, one for sending out stream, another for receiving stream. -- But not interfere with each other, what should I take care?
(ex. threads..)
Thanks.

[Shubhrajit Chatterjee]

It is possible to open multiple socket connections from a client. If you want simultaneous connections then each should ideally be running on a different thread
[This message has been edited by Shubhrajit Chatterjee (edited December 12, 2001).]

[Roy Huang]

Shubhrajit, thanks,
I want to implement two audio stream transferring through sockets -- which are already in the ByteArrayInputStream.
but the usuall example for the socket is to use a Bufferedreader and Printerwriter to wrap your character stream, not byte stream.
In my case, should I also use the wrapper(ex. bufferedInputstream)
or directly send it as a ByteArrayInputstream?
thanks.

[Shubhrajit Chatterjee]

Originally posted by Roy Huang:
I want to implement two audio stream transferring through sockets -- which are already in the ByteArrayInputStream.
but the usuall example for the socket is to use a Bufferedreader and Printerwriter to wrap your character stream, not byte stream.
In my case, should I also use the wrapper(ex. bufferedInputstream)
or directly send it as a ByteArrayInputstream?

You can use ByteArrayInputStream , no problem with that. One thing I forgor to mention... if u use an applet then you can only open a socket connnection to the host from which the applet was downloaded(for security reasons)
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Shubhrajit