Flushing streams
8 July 2008Flushing outputstreams has its own importance. You will realize this when working on socket programming.
If you do not flush the output stream every time you write something on it, the data may not actually get written out to the socket, and the two programs will keep on waiting for the data forever.
You can just call flush() after you write something important:
// OutputStream out; // byte[] data out.write(data); out.flush();
If you’re writing text data, you might use a PrintWriter for output. PrintWriter has a special constructor that lets you specify if the stream should be flushed after every newline:
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(rawOut, true);
A PrintWriter created in this way will automatically flush itself whenever you write a line of text.
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