Sending an image using sockets

Question

can anybody give an idea about how to send an image using sockets.....
what i want to do is a client that connects to a server this server has the images...so the client request any image that the server has and display it int the client's frame

Answer 1

Very good point! The problem ( I told you it was untested!) with the above is that the Image class isn't actually serialisable.
The solution depends on how you're storing your images and how you're managing them within your server. It also depends on your proposed client. For example, if your client was a browser and your images files on a disk, then you might use:
                    Socket s;
                    // Write out header
                    PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream());
                    pw.println("Content-Type: image/gif");
                    // And send out data.
                    byte[] buffer = new byte[2048];
                    int count;
                    while((count = fis.read(buffer))>0) {
                         s.getOutputStream().write(buffer, 0, count);
                    s.getOutputStream().close();
               }although you'd probably be better off using a proper webserver. If you're using a proprietry client, then you can either use Swing's JEditorPane to act like browser and display the image as the server above presents it.
Otherwise, your client could use the incoming byte stream to create a BufferedImage instance.
How are you storing your images and how are you presenting them?