Problem with PrintWriter

I have a printWriter that is on the server side. When a connection is is established to the server and the client get killed without properly closing the printwriter just hangs and never returns a call to any of it's method like flush(). or a println. If any one can help me it will be really great. I tried to use the checkError() method and it did the same problem.

Here is the sample code out

PrintWriter out = new.......

out.println("Some string");
out.print("A very large string");
out.flush(); // this is where the call never returns .......

Did you call checkError() after flush() or instead of?

Any printWriter call after the last print() statement does not return. I was running my system in debug mode and when ever any call is made for printwriter after print() as I have out.flush() it just hangs.