Java seems to be having a buffer error....

Question

Ok let me start by saying I do not know any JAVA programming. I just trying to fix something that some dump programmer charged me a ton of money for and it does not work right...
The program reads a XML stream and creates XML files... The read works great!!! I had someone help me figure out how to get rid of the write code to make sure the read was working and it works great. The problem exists when the files seem to happening when the files are being written... A 1mb file can take up to 8 hours to download and write to a file. But if you get rid of the write the stream can read that entire one meg in 15 seconds. So something tells me its some sort of buffer error or something like that. Here is the code...
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
public class SocketReader
ServerSocket server = null;
Socket client = null;
BufferedReader in = null;
PrintWriter out = null;
String line;
String strTotal="";
public void listenSocket()
try {
server = new ServerSocket(9600);
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Could not listen on port 9600");
System.exit(-1);
try {
client = server.accept();
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Accept failed: 9600");
System.exit(-1);
try {
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(client.getInputStream()));
out = new PrintWriter(client.getOutputStream(), true); //Getting client's output stream coz its up for grabs
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Accept failed: 9600");
System.exit(-1);
int iCount=0;
int iChk=0;
try {
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {                                   
System.out.println(line);
if (line != null)
iCount=line.length();
if (iCount==3){ //(line.startsWith("<?xml")){
if (iChk!=0){   
//XMLWriter.writeXML(strTotal.substring(5, strTotal.length()).trim());
strTotal="";
iChk=1;
strTotal=strTotal+"\n"+line;
out.println(line);
out.flush();
//XMLWriter.writeXML(line);
//Send data back to client. Not required. Just writing back to the client coz u have his output stream!
//out.println("Received string" + line);
catch (IOException e) {
//e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Read failed");
System.exit(-1);
protected void finalize()
//Clean up
try {
in.close();
out.close();
server.close();
catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Could not close.");
System.exit(-1);
public static void main(String[] args)
SocketReader frame = new SocketReader();
frame.listenSocket();
}

Answer 1

A ton of money? Hopefully not too much money, as that code shouldn't have taken more than one hour to write. And it could have been done better (although consultants ALWAYS say that about the previous guy's code).
However if I start telling you what to fix, then I'm going to get into remote debugging and I really don't want to do that. Besides there's a lot of stuff in there that leads me to believe there's some strange requirements. Let me just say that a StringBuffer would have been a much more effective tool to accumulate a big string, if you want to get the original programmer back to fix the code, although that isn't going to help you as a non-programmer.