Can't get client and server to communicate

Question

hiya
For some reason I can?t get server and client to exchange any messages ( server does receive a message from client only when I terminate the client process ).
At first I thought that firewall was somehow preventing the two from communicating, but then I ran some server-client app ( which I copied from the book I?m learning from) and it worked perfectly. So problem must be my code, but I don?t see anything wrong with it.
In the following code the client reads from console input and sends that to the server, which then echoes these data back to the client:
CLIENT SIDE:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Main {
    static Socket s;
    static String message, response;
    public static void main( String[] args ) {
              try{
                  send( 2000 );
              catch( Exception e { e.printStackTrace(); }
    static void send( int port ) throws IOException {
            InetAddress ia = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
            s = new Socket( ia, port );
            OutputStreamWriter ow = new OutputStreamWriter(
                    s.getOutputStream(), "UTF8" );
            BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter ( ow ) ;
            InputStreamReader ir  = new InputStreamReader(
                    s.getInputStream(), "UTF8" );
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader ( ir );
            InputStreamReader console = new InputStreamReader (
                    System.in );
            BufferedReader readConsole = new BufferedReader (
                    console );
            do
                message = readConsole.readLine();
                bw.write( message );
                bw.flush();
                System.out.println( "waiting for a response" );
                response = br.readLine();
                System.out.print( " This was sent by server:" );
                System.out.println ( response );
            } while  (  !message.equals( "Stop" ) );
            s.close();
SERVER SIDE:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Main {
    public static void main( String[] args )  {
        try{
              Server.Init();
              Server.handleClient();
        catch( Exception e ){ e.printStackTrace(); }
class Server {
    static int port = 2000;
    static ServerSocket servs;
    static Socket s;
    static  void Init() throws IOException {
        servs = new ServerSocket( port );
    static void handleClient() throws IOException {
        do{
                 Server.connect();
        } while( true );
   static void connect() throws IOException {
          s = servs.accept();
          InputStream is = s.getInputStream();
          InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
          BufferedReader bf = new BufferedReader(isr);
          OutputStream os   = s.getOutputStream();
          OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(os);
          BufferedWriter bfw  = new BufferedWriter(osw);
          String messages;
          System.out.println("reading first message");
          messages = bf.readLine();
          System.out.println("first message read");
          while ( ! messages.equals( "Stop" ) ) {
              bfw.write ( "message received" );
              bfw.flush();
              System.out.println( messages );
              messages = bf.readLine();
          s.close();
   } any help would be appreciated
thank you

Answer 1

I assumed that when client reads from console, the newline character is also copied into a string returned by readline(). I guess that applies only to read() methods, but not readline()?!
EDIT -I noticed that while now server does get the message and also sends it back to client, it doesn't itself display the message, even if I use flush(). Why is that?
          while ( ! messages.equals("Stop") ){
              bfw.write ( "message received" );
              bfw.newLine();
              bfw.flush();
              System.out.println( messages ); // this doesn't get written to the
                                                                console
              System.out.flush();
              messages = bf.readLine();
          }EDIT 2 - Nevermind. All works as it should!
thank you kindly for your help