I am new to Java networking, and having looked for a resolution for my problem for a while now, I figured why not ask some advice from some more qualified people on this matter?
I currently have made a small tool which manages a server of mine, and another small client tool. My goal is for the tool to be able to send commands from the client to the server computer. This way I can perform certain actions on the server computer from another machine, including sending a zip archive with updated files.
I have the basics setup: a TCP connection that sends a command from client to server (server replies with a confirmation) and then I would like the supposed action to take place. My question now is this:
When sending a file (.zip) from the client to server, should I send it over TCP or use something like FTP? I would not only like to send the file to the server, but also when it arrived to extract and replace the existing files.
Kind regards, Alex
EDIT: This is what I used for transferring a file from the client to server, however the file doesn't reach the destination in full size.. D:
Server
package server.control.net.impl;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
public class Update implements Runnable {
private final static int serverPort = 5555;
private final static String fileInput = "C:\\Users\\Alexander\\Documents\\update.zip";
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException{
ServerSocket servsock = new ServerSocket(serverPort);
File myFile = new File(fileInput);
while (true) {
Socket sock = servsock.accept();
byte[] mybytearray = new byte[(int) myFile.length()];
BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(myFile));
bis.read(mybytearray, 0, mybytearray.length);
OutputStream os = sock.getOutputStream();
os.write(mybytearray, 0, mybytearray.length);
os.flush();
sock.close();
}
}
public static void start(){
Update upd = new Update();
Thread tupd = new Thread(upd);
tupd.start();
}
@Override
public void run() {
}
}
Client
package server.control.net;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
public class TCPClient {
private final static String serverIP = "127.0.0.1";
private final static int serverPort = 5555;
private final static String fileOutput = "C:\\Users\\Alexander\\Documents\\updateoutput.zip";
public static void main(String args[]) throws UnknownHostException, IOException {
Socket sock = new Socket(serverIP, serverPort);
byte[] mybytearray = new byte[1024];
InputStream is = sock.getInputStream();
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileOutput);
BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
int bytesRead = is.read(mybytearray, 0, mybytearray.length);
bos.write(mybytearray, 0, bytesRead);
bos.close();
sock.close();
}
}