Re: Help wiith input/output of jar

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:49:37 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-96C631.16493606082009@news.aioe.org>
In article
<4c1b3fc4-16d8-45e1-87a8-b896ebcfb4ba@r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>,
 bH <bherbst65@hotmail.com> wrote:

I want to make a program into a jar that makes the input and output
visible when executing the jar. I have Windows XP. I have a program
that runs successfully,but not in the jar form, using these lines of
code:
.....
BufferedReader userIn = new BufferedReader(
       new InputStreamReader(System.in));
      out = new PrintWriter(theSocket.getOutputStream());
      System.out.println("Connected to echo server");
......
When I use the jar form, execute it, the page on which to write the
input and output are not visible. Requesting advice, please.


Maybe you can use something like this. I haven't tried it on Windows,
but I'd appreciate hearing your results. I think XP has a telnet client,
but PuTTY should work, too:

<code>
package net;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import javax.swing.*;

public class EchoServer implements ActionListener, Runnable {

    private static final int PORT = 12000;
    private final JTextField tf = new JTextField(25);;
    private final JTextArea ta = new JTextArea(15, 25);;
    private final JButton send = new JButton("Send");
    private volatile PrintWriter out;
    private Scanner in;
    private Thread listener;

    public EchoServer() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame("Echo Server");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(send);
        f.add(tf, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        f.add(new JScrollPane(ta), BorderLayout.CENTER);
        f.add(send, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        f.setLocation(300, 300);
        f.pack();
        f.setVisible(true);
        send.addActionListener(this);
        ta.setLineWrap(true);
        ta.setWrapStyleWord(true);
        display("Please telnet to port " + PORT);
        listener = new Thread(this, "Listener");
    }

    public void start() {
        listener.start();
    }

    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
        String s = tf.getText();
        if (out != null) out.println(s);
        display(s);
        tf.setText("");
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            ServerSocket ss = new ServerSocket(PORT);
            Socket socket = ss.accept();
            in = new Scanner(socket.getInputStream());
            out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
            while (true) {
                display(in.nextLine());
           }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private void display(String s) {
        ta.append(s + "\u23CE\n");
        ta.setCaretPosition(ta.getDocument().getLength());
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                new EchoServer().start();
            }
        });
    }
}
</code>

--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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