Getting exception when trying to send data to a server

Question

Hi all,
I am working on to connect to a remote machine sendng data to remote machine and testing whether data is reaching to machine or not..but when i do it i get the following exception
java.io.EOFException
at java.io.DataInputStream.readUnsignedShort(Unknown Source)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readUTF(Unknown Source)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readUTF(Unknown Source)
at Client.main(Client.java:37)
and this is my code
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Client {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int serverPort = 8080; // make sure you give the port number on which the server is listening. 
String address = "remotehost"; // this is the IP address of the server  computer.
  try { 
Socket socket = new Socket(address, serverPort); // create a socket with the server's IP address and server's port. 
System.out.println("Yes! I just got hold of the program.");
// Get the input and output streams of the socket, so that you can receive and send data to the client. 
InputStream sin = socket.getInputStream(); 
OutputStream sout = socket.getOutputStream();
// Just converting them to different streams, so that string handling becomes easier.
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(sin);
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(sout);
// Create a stream to read from the keyboard. 
BufferedReader keyboard = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String line = null; 
System.out.println("Type in something and press enter. Will send it to the server and tell ya what it thinks."); 
System.out.println();
while(true) {
line = keyboard.readLine(); // wait for the user to type in something and press enter.
System.out.println("Sending this line to the server...");
out.writeUTF(line); // send the above line to the server.
out.flush(); // flush the stream to ensure that the data reaches the other end. 
line = in.readUTF(); // wait for the server to send a line of text.
System.out.println(" : " + line);
System.out.println(); 
  } catch(IOException e) if any knows what's the problem please help me..
Thanks

Answer 1

We'll need a little more info. If you're doing anything like the following then there's a problem:
File f = new File("demo.txt");
The problem is that the demo.txt file is not in the current directory - it's in the rmi\compute directory.
This should work but it's not recommended:
File f = new File("c:\\rmi\\compute\\demo.txt");
You should substitue File.separator for the "\\" chars.