Object Oriented Programming Through Java by Pearson

11.10 Networking in Java

11.5.2 Server and Socket for Communications : How to Set Them for Work?

• At server create a server socket using ServerSocket class and allocate a port number:

ServerSocket servskt = new ServerSocket (port number);

• Make the server wait for client connection request by creating a client socket by using

Socket class and by using accept() method

Socket clientskt = serverskt.accept();

• Link OutputStream to socket object clientskt just created by using

getOutputStream() which returns a output stream object. This

object will be used by clientskt to sent the data to client.

OutputStream comobj = clientskt. getOutputStream(); ...