custom streaming of xml from socket

[DeepakN kumar]

I am trying to use the streaming xml feature of Saxparser for parsing the xml from a socket.Since streaming helps in parsing the xml as and when it is available instead of waiting for the entire xml to get buffered, i hope this is the prefered solution when dealing with socket stream.

I am using java 1.5 and using the parser provided by java 1.5( i think Xerces parser). In the code is am doing the following to activate streaming where StreamingCharFactory is a class created which extends org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultReaderFactory.

 SAXParser parser = new SAXParser();
 parser.setReaderFactory(new StreamingCharFactory());

The issue is that the existing parser provided by Java 1.5 doesn't recognise the method :

 parser.setReaderFactory() 

and gives error. Can any one tell me what should be the version of the Xerces parser that i should be using here that support

setReaderFactory 

method and

 org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultReaderFactory