Java Network Programming, 3rd Edition

The new third edition of this highly regarded introduction to Java networking programming has been thoroughly revised to cover all of the 100+ significant updates to Java Developers Kit (JDK) 1.5. It is a clear, complete introduction to developing network programs (both applets and applications) using Java, covering everything from networking fundamentals to remote method invocation (RMI).

Java Network Programming, 3rd Edition includes chapters on TCP and UDP sockets, multicasting protocol and content handlers, servlets, multithreaded network programming, I/O, HTML parsing and display, the Java Mail API, and the Java Secure Sockets Extension. There’s also significant information on the New I/O API that was developed in large part because of the needs of network programmers.

This invaluable book is a complete, single source guide to writing sophisticated network applications. Packed with useful examples, it is the essential resource for any serious Java developer.

Does this sound familiar? You know Java well enough to write standalone applets and applications, even multithreaded ones, but you know next to nothing about the language’s networking capabilities. And guess what–your next job is to write a network-centric Java program. Java Network Programmingserves as an excellent introduction to network communications generally and in Java. The book opens with information on network architectures and protocols and the security restrictions placed on applets. Quickly, the author gets to the meat of networked Java with a complete elucidation of the InetAddress class, the URL-related classes, applet-specific networking methods, and sockets. The author also covers packets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and servlets.

The one serious shortcoming of this book is that it does not include a companion disk, which is the case with most O’Reilly books. You’ll have to visit the publisher’s FTP site for the code if you dislike typing the examples manually. On the whole, though, this is an excellent tutorial that will guide you through the world of Java networking as smoothly as possible.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Why Networked Java?
Chapter 2. Basic Network Concepts
Chapter 3. Basic Web Concepts
Chapter 4. Streams
Chapter 5. Threads
Chapter 6. Looking Up Internet Addresses
Chapter 7. URLs and URIs
Chapter 8. HTML in Swing
Chapter 9. Sockets for Clients
Chapter 10. Sockets for Servers
Chapter 11. Secure Sockets
Chapter 12. Non-Blocking I/O
Chapter 13. UDP Datagrams and Sockets
Chapter 14. Multicast Sockets
Chapter 15. URLConnections
Chapter 16. Protocol Handlers
Chapter 17. Content Handlers
Chapter 18. Remote Method Invocation
Chapter 19. The JavaMail API