Although developing web-based WebSocket clients is currently the most common way of developing WebSocket clients, the Java API for WebSocket provides a client API we can use to develop WebSocket clients in Java.
In this section, we will be developing a simple WebSocket client using the client API of the Java API for WebSocket. The final product looks like this:
However, we won't be covering the GUI code (developed using the Swing framework), since it is not relevant to the discussion. The complete code for the example, including the GUI code, can be downloaded from the Packt Publishing website.
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