java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 54657374

I am trying to read a string which is send from client using Socket program, The code as follows:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.lang.ClassNotFoundException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;

public class SocketServerExample {

    //static ServerSocket variable
    private static ServerSocket server;
    //socket server port on which it will listen
    private static int port = 5000;

    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException{
        //create the socket server object
        server = new ServerSocket(port);
        //keep listens indefinitely until receives 'exit' call or program terminates
        while(true){
            System.out.println("Waiting for client request");
            //creating socket and waiting for client connection
            Socket socket = server.accept();
            //read from socket to ObjectInputStream object
            ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
            //convert ObjectInputStream object to String
            String message = (String) ois.readObject();
            System.out.println("Message Received: " + message);
            //create ObjectOutputStream object
            ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(socket.getOutputStream());
            //write object to Socket
            oos.writeObject("Hi Client "+message);
            //close resources
            ois.close();
            oos.close();
            socket.close();
            //terminate the server if client sends exit request
            if(message.equalsIgnoreCase("exit")) break;
        }
        System.out.println("Shutting down Socket server!!");
        //close the ServerSocket object
        server.close();
    }

}

But I am getting error as follows while reading the string from client:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 54657374
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readStreamHeader(ObjectInputStream.java:803)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.<init>(ObjectInputStream.java:298)
    at SocketServerExample.main(SocketServerExample.java:29)

I searched and not managed find the bug. Please help me.

Clearly you aren't sending the data with ObjectOutputStream: you are just writing the bytes.

• If you read with readObject() you must write with writeObject().
• If you read with readUTF() you must write with writeUTF().
• If you read with readXXX() you must write with writeXXX(), for most values of XXX.

You can't expect ObjectInputStream to automagically convert text into objects. The hexadecimal 54657374 is "Test" as text. You must be sending it directly as bytes.