March 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1254 pages
104h 21m
English
This
chapter documents the
javax.net package and, more importantly, its
subpackage javax.net.ssl. These packages were
originally defined by the Java Secure Sockets Extension (JSSE) before
they were integrated into Java 1.4, which is why they have a
“javax” prefix.
javax.net is a small package that simply defines
abstract factory classes for creating network sockets and servers
sockets. javax.net.ssl provides subclasses of
these factory classes that have the specific purpose of creating
sockets and server sockets that enable secure network communication
through the SSL protocol and the closely-related TLS protocol.