28.3 Establishing a Simple Server Using Stream Sockets
The two examples discussed so far use high-level Java networking capabilities to communicate between applications. In the examples, it was not your responsibility to establish the connection between a client and a server. The first program relied on the web browser to communicate with a web server. The second program relied on a JEditorPane to perform the connection. This section begins our discussion of creating your own applications that can communicate with one another.
Step 1: Create a ServerSocket
Establishing a simple server in Java requires five steps. Step 1 is to create a ServerSocket object. A call to the ServerSocket constructor, such as
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