[jdom-interest] Building from Socket

[Laurent Bihanic]

Hi,

Sebastian Robertsson wrote:
> I know this is an old topic - the problem of building a JDOM-doc read from a socket without closing it. I've 
> just tried this solution:
> 
> http://www.servlets.com/archive/servlet/ReadMsg?msgId=340949&listName=jdom-interest

The code I provided was intended to read data from the InputStream provided by 
an HTTP request. This is a very specific input stream because, thanks to the 
HTTP protocol, it knows when the data ends.

When using this code directly on a socket input stream, it can't know when a 
data chunk (document) is complete. You need to add an application-specific 
protocol information around the raw data to let your code know when to stop 
reading from the socket.
If your data only contains XML, you could for example send a vertical tab 
character (ascii code 11, hex. 0x0B), which is illegal in XML, to mark the end 
of a data chunk. (But don't forget to remove it from the data before handing 
over to the XML parser.)

Laurent