Reading/Writing Objects from/to Sockets

Question

I have a list of objects on the Server side that I want to write to a Client. The code on the Server side looks like this
Socket socket = serverSocket.accept( )
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream( socket.getOutputStream());
for ( int i = 0 ; i < list.size ( ) ; i++)
oos.writeObject(list.get ( i ) ;
}On the Client side it looks like this
ServerSocket socket = new ServerSocket( 7000 )
socket.accept ( )
while( true )
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream( socket.getInputStream( ) )
Object obj = ois.readObject( )
}My question is; how to "mark" on the server side that I written all the objects, so that I know on the client side when to end reading objects ?
When dealing with bytes, to mark EOF one can do:
socket.write(new byte[1])on the server side
And on the client side
while( socket.read != -1 )to know when to quit reading.

Answer 1

You could just pass an EndObject that marks the end (e.g Byte or an own Object).
But I don't think you need this. Most collections are Serializable so you can just pass your list to the stream.