java - Sending ByteArrays and Bytes from the same TCP connection -

in application i'm create socket communication between client , server. there 2 types of messages passing differ in-terms of length of data. 1 message type has 1 byte, while other 1 of variable length. trying use single tcp connection handle both situations, far failed. please tell me ideal approach this. using 2 connections different port numbers best approach? note impossible use socket.io in project due external constraints.

here's reading code i'm using:

        socket socket = new socket( dstaddress, dstport );         inputstream inputstream = socket.getinputstream();         try( bytearrayoutputstream bytearrayoutputstream = new bytearrayoutputstream( 1024 ) )         {             byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];             int bytesread;             while( ( bytesread = inputstream.read( buffer ) ) != -1 )             {                 bytearrayoutputstream.write( buffer, 0, bytesread );             }         }         catch( exception e )         {             e.printstacktrace();         } 

thanks

you need design own communication protocol, http example, of course simpler. , implement decoder/encoder on both sides