how to send a file or photo to clients using sockets??

[Yegappan Balasubramanian]

HI
I want to know how the clients can transfer a file or photo to one another when connected using sockets in java networking.Can any one help me how this should be done.It should work in a similar way as in msn messenger.Pls help me.
Thanks in Advance
---Yegappan---

[Laudney Ren]

when you have established a socket, the sender calls Socket 's getOutputStream and writes to the stream; the client calls Socket 's getInputStream and reads from the stream.
Either stream can be wrapped by higher-level stream such as FileOutputStream and OutputStreamWriter.