Sockets and BufferedWriter

[jingles2005]

Hello i am totally stumped at this one. I've got 2 classes genusIMServer and genusClientHandler (below). When I connect to port 2233 using telnet and enter 'UserLogin;' and press enter i get a NullPointerException with BufferedWriter outStream. I have no idea why. Could anyone enlighten me? The error occurs in the ProcessInput() method in the genusClientHandler class. Here is the code for both classes:

//--------------------------------------------------------------------
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

class genusIMServer{

private ServerSocket ssMain;
private boolean IsListening = true;

public genusIMServer(){
System.out.println("-------------------------------------------");
System.out.println("-------- Welcome to genusIM server --------");
System.out.println("-------------------------------------------\n");

try{
ssMain = new ServerSocket(2233);
System.out.println("Server started...");
}
catch(IOException e){}

StartListening();
}

public static void main(String[] arguments){
genusIMServer IMServer = new genusIMServer();
}

public void StartListening(){
while(IsListening){
try{
new genusClientHandler(ssMain.accept()).start();
}
catch(IOException e){}
}
}

}
//--------------------------------------------------------------------

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class genusClientHandler extends Thread{

private Socket sckMain;
private BufferedWriter outStream;
private BufferedReader inStream;

public genusClientHandler(Socket socket){
sckMain = socket;
}

public void run(){
try{
System.out.println("Accepted new connection from " + sckMain.getLocalSocketAddress());
BufferedReader inStream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sckMain.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
while((inputLine = inStream.readLine()) != null){
ProcessInput(inputLine);
}
CloseStreams();
}
catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
}

public void CreateOutputStream(){
try{
BufferedWriter outStream = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(sckMain.getOutputStream()));
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

private void ProcessInput(String strData){

if(outStream == null){
System.out.println("outStream is null but why?????");
CreateOutputStream();
}

String[] cmdLine = strData.split(";");
if(cmdLine[0].equals("UserLogin")){
try{
outStream.write("Hello");
outStream.flush();
}
catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
}
else if(cmdLine[0].equals("Exit")){
CloseStreams();
}
}


private void CloseStreams(){
try{
outStream.close();
inStream.close();
sckMain.close();
}
catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
}
}

[JGRobinson]

this has already been answered in the other Java forum at
http://forums.devx.com/showthread.php?t=141957