February 2025
Intermediate to advanced
684 pages
16h 14m
English
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Chapter 15. Server-Side Java
15.0 Introduction
Sockets form the underpinnings of almost all network software implementations. HTTP(S), JDBC, RMI, CORBA, EJB, XMPP, and the non-Java Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and Network File System (NFS): all are implemented by connecting various types of sockets together. Socket connections can be implemented in most any language, not just Java: C (the original), C++, Perl, and Python are also popular, and many others are possible. A client or server written in any one of these languages can communicate with its opposite written in any of the other languages. Therefore, it’s worth taking a quick look at how the ServerSocket behaves, even if you wind up utilizing one of the higher-level services.
The discussion looks first at the ServerSocket itself, then at writing data over a socket in various ways. Finally, I show a complete implementation of a usable network server written in Java: the chat server from the client in the previous chapter.
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Most production work in server-side Java uses the Jakarta Enterprise Edition (Jakarta EE, formerly Java EE), transferred years ago from Oracle to the Eclipse Software Foundation and renamed to Jakarta, but still widely referred to by its previous name (and occasionally by its very old name, “J2EE,” which was retired some 20 years ago). Those that don’t use EE directly use some of its core APIs buried in other frameworks, like Spring Boot, Quarkus, Helidon, and more. Jakarta EE provides scalability and ...
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