Java Networking and Communications: Building Communicating Applications with Java (SunSoft Press Java) Book

Java 1.1 Networking & Communications serves as an excellent text for beginning and intermediate programmers who want to find out how one Java entity (a thread, a class, whatever) communicates with another. By working through the excellent code samples here, which do such things as implement the finger protocol, readers become familiar with the essentials of Java communications. This book opens with an in-depth discussion of streams, which are essential to all Java communication--among a single program's threads as well as among separate programs. You get information on the logic behind streams, the various ways to implement streams in Java, and some example uses for streams. The author then moves on to the Internet, detailing the URL-related classes, especially java.net.URL and java.netURLConnection. He then covers threads, sockets, and packets. Unfortunately, there's no coverage of Remote Method Invocation (RMI), which would have made this book more complete. Still, the information that's here--and there's a lot of it--is excellent, and this book, which comes with a CD-ROM, is an excellent introduction to Java's networking capabilities.Read More