Transfering files via sockets

Hi
I am writing a client server app, and am communicating between the clients and server using the Socket and Serversocket class's. Transfering strings is very easy, but i also want to transfer files. I usually use Fileinputstream/fileoutputstream in normal circumstances, but i dont think this will work with sockets.
Any suggestions on how i can transfer files through a sockets would be most welcome.
Cheers
Steve

Just create the InputStream to your file, read in some bytes, write the bytes to the sockets OutputStream, voila!
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