Using Deflater and Inflater with JDK 1.1

Question

Does anyone have an example using the classes Deflater and Inflater to decompress and compress data?
I get an "EOFException" when using the following code:
// compression
public Packet zipData(Packet packet)
// Create a new Deflater
Deflater def = new Deflater();
byte[] buf = new byte[packet.getData().length];
int offset = 0;
def.setInput(packet.getData(), offset, packet.getData().length);
def.finish();
offset = def.deflate(buf);
byte[] real_buf = new byte[offset];
System.arraycopy(buf, 0, real_buf, 0, offset);
packet.setData(real_buf);
return packet;
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Answer 1

take a look at this techtip, may be it will be of some help to you
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/TechTips/1998/tt0421.html#tip2