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TCP/IP Sockets in Java Bundle: TCP/IP Sockets in Java, Second Edition: Practical Guide for Programmers (The Practical Guides)

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I have a pretty good background in writing Java applications for many different scenarios. I also come from a background where I already know the different between TCP and UDP and large parts of how TCP/IP networks work. However, I found that I was able to pick up some new tricks. Everything past the first chapter I found very helpful. The discussion of the New IO system was extremely valuable. The discussion of how blocking works was also very helpful. I knew there was something suspicious going on with all the examples I found line using simple while loops for sending and receiving on sockets!

I found the book and examples easy to read and follow. I would recommend it for anyone else just starting out with Java network programming.

Don't go by the pages of the book. Its coverage is pretty good(including NIO). It won't make you a guru in the subject, but lay a solid foundation if you aspire to be ! Buy it, you won't regret.

a very nice, intro level book. it starts at the very beginning, but doesn't waste a lot of time; provides the reader with some simple working examples, well explained; and points the way to more sophisticated stuff. perfect.

This is a book of some 170 pages, but don't judge it by its length. It has been superbly written to convey the essence of what you need as a programmer to understand to get the the job done. Within an hour or so of reading it I had uncovered the majority of what I needed to gather for my current project but found myself just reading it to learn more. It is just so well written with the perfect balance of code and diagrams.

The real beauty of this book lies in its succinctness and the relevance of what is included in the book. It is quite clear that the authors felt they did not need to pad this with useless information and understood very clearly what needed to be included to get you going. I found the section on NIO Channels and Buffers especially enlightening and useful and all sections have a code section associated with it which can be downloaded from the author's web address.

If you are in a hurry to learn about socket programming I would be surprised in you needed any book other than this one.