DataOutputStream / DataInputStream ( Losing information? )

Question

I have written a client server program. The client program establishes a URL connection to a ServerSocket. I am using a DataOutputStream to pass a large amount of data back to the client. The problem is that it appears that every now and then a byte is skipped or lost. Here is the important part of the code. (psudo) This loss appears to happen when I read the bytes into the Buf Array.
On the ServerSide :
DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(os));
while (notcomplete){
       dos.writeInt(acuiredInt);
       dos.writeLong(acuiredLong);
        byte[] acuiredBuf ;
        for(int i=0; i < acuiredBuf; i++)
                  dos.writeByte( acuiredBuf) ;
On the Client Side
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(os));
while (notcomplete){
       dis.readLong(acuiredLong);
       dis.readInt(acuiredInt);
        byte[] acuiredBuf  = new byte[1024];  //always the same size
        for(int i=0; i < acuiredBuf; i++)
                  dis.readByte( ) ;
}I know that one byte is being lost because I tried to send the same int value acros constantly, and then instead of calling readInt, i called readByte four times (four bytes of an int) , and gradually everytime the mysterios 'loss' happend, the values would shift. See my example:
Should Be:  
              1    =>       0 , 0 , 0 , 10      
              2    =>       0 , 0 , 10 , 020 
              3    =>       0 , 10, 152, 102    etc. 1 <= This displays lets say 500 times and is the correct Representation of the int then...
2 <= The 020 is not correct, it should be like the line above. This means that the first 0 has disapeared. (But when i check the last entry in the Buf, the 0 is there) . Afer even some more time it becomes the 3rd line. and the first two zeros are the last two entries in the Buf array.
So i dont' know if i'm losing information? Using the streams wrong, or how to fix it. All i want to do is pass a large amount of information from the server to the client.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In your loop, what aren't you checking the byte array's length rather than comparing against the byte array itself? Does that even compile? Post the actual code that is having issues.
Also, flushing after writing a single byte is a huge waste. Flush after a 'message' from the client is complete to send to the server and vice versa.
- Saish