Socket Code

Question

Hey guys,
I am having trouble with the following task listed below. The problem is I am not sure how to write a while loop that reads text from the server socket input stream, line by line, and prints it out to the web page, using out.println(...);
Also how do I call the toHTMLString() method?
          DCACHANGE4 - add a while loop that reads text from the
          server socket input stream, line by line, and prints
          it out to the web page, using out.println(...);
          Note that because the reply from the server will contain
          XML, you will need to call upon the toHTMLString() method
          defined below to escape the < and > symbols so that they
          will display correctly in the web browser.
          Also note that as you receive the reply back from the
          server, you should look out for the special <!--QUIT-->
          string that will indicate when there is no more data
          to receive.
// Close all the streams we have open, and then close the socket
sockOut.close();
sockIn.close();
mySocket.close();
%>
<%!
This method will escape any special HTML characters in a string
of text. For example, if you are trying to print out an XML
document using a JSP, you need to escape all the '<' and '>' tags
so that the web browser will not try and treat them as HTML.
Note that generic utility code like this would usually be put into
a JavaBean, but is put in the JSP here for simplicity.
This code taken from H. Bergsten, JavaServer Pages, O'Reilly, 2001.
private static String toHTMLString(String in) {
StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; in != null && i < in.length(); i++) {
char c = in.charAt(i);
if (c == '\'') {
out.append("&#39;");
else if (c == '\"') {
out.append("&#34;");
else if (c == '<') {
out.append("<");
else if (c == '>') {
out.append(">");
else if (c == '&') {
out.append("&");
else {
out.append(c);
return out.toString();
%>
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Answer 1

ok i'm close to solving the problem but not quiet.
i've added the following code to my server:
     while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
                  outputLine = inputLine;
                  out.println(outputLine);
                    System.out.println(outputLine);
             }it appears to be recieving the xml document that is sent to it thats generating from the textfields:
Server started at port 10162
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cd>
    <title>Adams2</title>
    <artist>Bryan</artist>
    <tracklist>
        <track id="1">
            <title>Halo</title>
            <time>skj</time>
            <rating>1</rating>
        </track>
    </tracklist>
</cd>
<!--QUIT-->... however it think the problem lays in cdprocess.jsp
whenever i use sockIn.readLine()
it just stalls even without any while loops!
i've tried out.println("hello"); theres no problem with printing something out.
Another problem i found strange was when i aborted the connected to the server (i.e. terminated it) it generated the results but only one of them for some weird reason (rating)