Working with Sockets
Sockets are a programming abstraction that isolates your code from the low-level implementations of the TCP/IP protocol stack. TCP sockets enable you to quickly develop your own custom client/server applications. Although the URL classes described later in this chapter are useful with well-established protocols, sockets allow you to develop your own modes of communication.
Sockets, as a programming interface, were originally developed at the University of California at Berkeley as a tool to easily accomplish network programming. Originally part of UNIX operating systems, the concept of sockets has been incorporated into a wide variety of operating environments, including Java.
What Is a Socket?
A socket is a handle to a communications ...
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