Just Java™ 2, Fifth Edition

Chapter 17. Networking in Java

• Everything You Need To Know about TCP/IP but Failed to Learn in Kindergarten

• A Client Socket in Java

• Sending Email by Java

• A Server Socket in Java

• HTTP and Web Browsing: Retrieving HTTP Pages

• How to Make an Applet Write a File on the Server

• A Multithreaded HTTP Server

• A Mapped I/O HTTP Server

• Further Reading

• Exercises

• Some Light Relief—Using Java to Stuff an Online Poll

	“If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt’s not caught, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.”
	--— Programmer’s traditional nursery rhyme

The biggest barrier to understanding Java networking ...