The following code does not work ("file" and "image" are members of the
class; nextNumber(InputStream) returns the next number in the
InputStream):

public void write(PrintStream stream) throws IOException {
  FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
  int size = in.available();
  stream.println(size);
  byte[] b = new byte[in.available()];
  in.read(b);
  stream.write(b, 0, size);
  in.close();
}

public void read(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
  int size = (int)nextNumber(stream);
  byte[] buf = new byte[size];
  stream.read(buf, 0, size);
  ByteArrayInputStream imageStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(buf);
  image = ImageIO.read(imageStream);
}

"image" is null when I run this code. Suffice to say, the code
"ImageIO.read(file)" works. Can anyone see a problem with this? Thanks.

Ron