Digilogic

I am trying to write a simple server and client in java to send text back and forth. The way it is written now, My client must wait for a response message each time it sends one before it can send another. Is there a way to check the input stream and if there is no data then move on? Right now it just sits and waits for new data when I try to check for it.

Thanks

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