NullPointerException when writing to a socket.

[Chris Singer]

Can anyone see why I would be getting a NullPointerException from the write command I'm making in the sendCommand method? I have checked the byte array to see that the values are truly there. I can't see why I would be getting a NullPointerException at run time from this line. Perhaps there is something I didn't initialize in the constructor? Does anyone have any suggestions. Thank you.
Chris

  private BufferedOutputStream cmdOutput;
  private BufferedInputStream cmdInput;
//===============================================================================================================
// Default Constructor.
  public void ConnectionToVM() throws UnknownHostException, IOException
  {
    try
    {
    destAddress = InetAddress.getByAddress(dIP);
   cmdSocket = new Socket(destAddress, dport, InetAddress.getLocalHost(), sport);
// Input stream that can take 8K of data
        cmdInput = new BufferedInputStream(cmdSocket.getInputStream(), 8192);
// Output Stream with 4K of space.
        cmdOutput = new BufferedOutputStream(cmdSocket.getOutputStream(), 4096);
    }catch (UnknownHostException e) { System.out.println("Unknown host.  Check IP address and try again.");}
     catch (IOException o){ System.out.println("IO exception"); }
  }
//===============================================================================================================
// method for sending a command in Hex (IE Byte array).
  public void sendCommand(byte [] command,int offset, int length)
  {
  try{
String test = new String(command, "UTF-8");
//Testing
System.out.println("NUll pointer? "+command[0]+","+command[1]);
cmdOutput.write(command, 0, length);
}catch(IOException e) { System.out.println("IO Error writing to the Buffered Output Stream cmdOutput"); }
  }
}

[Chris Singer]

Discovered the reason the NullPointerException. Socket isn't connecting thus, writing to the Output Stream was throwing the NullPointerException.