Keep getting error and don't know how to fix...

Question

ok, I keep getting this nullPointerException error.. and I have no clue what I've done wrong.... I believe its on the client side of it... because when I run just the client.. the try catch should make it be like "can't find host" but instead.. it just sits there.. the cursor blinking.. and Idk why.. so if you could please help me!!!!!!! heres the server and client code
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class SocketServer extends Thread
     private static Socket socket = null;
     static boolean forever = true;
     static RTS2 rts;
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
          ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
          try{
               serverSocket = new ServerSocket(5454);
          }catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Could not listen on port.");
            System.exit(1);
        Socket clientSocket = null;
         try {
            clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Accept failed.");
            System.exit(1);
        while(forever)
             try{
          ObjectOutputStream oos =
                        new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
          oos.writeObject(rts.getCompany());
          ObjectInputStream  ois =
                       new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
                  rts.setEnemy((Men)ois.readObject());
                  socket.close();
             } catch (Exception e) {
                           System.out.println(e);
                           e.printStackTrace();
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class SocketClient
     static boolean forever=true;
     static RTS2 rts;
     static Socket socket = null;
     static ObjectInputStream  ois = null;
     static ObjectOutputStream oos = null;
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
          try {
            socket = new Socket("josh", 5455);
            ois = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
               oos = new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            System.err.println("Don't know about host");
            System.exit(1);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("Couldn't get I/O for the connection");
            System.exit(1);
        while(forever)
             rts.setEnemy((Men)ois.readObject());
             System.out.println("hello");
                oos.writeObject(rts.getCompany());
               oos.flush();
}

Answer 1

ok so that was a silly mistake I made... yet it didn't fix the problem... whenever I run just the client, shouldn't it not find a host and not just sit there blinking? but when I do run the server then run the client I get this error from the server side
java.lang.NullPointerException
at SocketServer.main(SocketServer.java:32)
which is when it starts the ObjectOutputStream and such... so I can only assume the problems on the client side, I bet its something easy too that i'm missing.. lol