© Kishori Sharan 2018
Kishori SharanJava APIs, Extensions and Librarieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3546-1_4

4. Network Programming

Kishori Sharan1 
(1)
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
 
In this chapter, you will learn:

  • What network programming is

  • What the network protocol suite is

  • What an IP address is and what the different IP addressing schemes are

  • Special IP addresses and their uses

  • What port numbers are and how they are used

  • Using TCP and UDP client and server sockets for communication between remote computers

  • The definitions of URI, URL, and URN and how to represent them in Java programs

  • How to use non-blocking sockets

  • How to use asynchronous socket channels

  • Datagram-oriented socket channels and multicast datagram channels

All example programs in this chapter ...

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