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Java Network Programming (Java Series (O'Reilly & Associates).) (Paperback)

by Elliotte Rusty Harold (Author)

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Does this sound familiar? You know Java well enough to write standalone applets and applications, even multithreaded ones, but you know next to nothing about the language's networking capabilities. And guess what--your next job is to write a network-centric Java program. Java Network Programming serves as an excellent introduction to network communications generally and in Java. The book opens with information on network architectures and protocols and the security restrictions placed on applets. Quickly, the author gets to the meat of networked Java with a complete elucidation of the InetAddress class, the URL-related classes, applet-specific networking methods, and sockets. The author also covers packets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and servlets.

The one serious shortcoming of this book is that it does not include a companion disk, which is the case with most O'Reilly books. You'll have to visit the publisher's FTP site for the code if you dislike typing the examples manually. On the whole, though, this is an excellent tutorial that will guide you through the world of Java networking as smoothly as possible. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Java Network Programming is a complete introduction to developing network programs (both applets and applications) using Java. It covers everything from networking fundamentals to remote method invocation (RMI). It includes chapters on TCP and UDP sockets, multicasting protocol and content handlers, and servlets. This second edition also includes coverage of Java 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. New chapters cover multithreaded network programming, I/O, HTML parsing and display, the Java Mail API, the Java Secure Sockets Extension, and more.

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Paperback: 760 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly; 2nd edition (August 22, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565928709
ISBN-13: 978-1565928701
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Intro to Networking with Java, June 5, 2001

By	David C. Johnson (Spencer, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love this book. Absolutely love it. One of the great things here is the tie in of network programming with java's IO classes. Networking in Java is IO, and this book explains it upfront.

The overviews of IO and Threading in the first couple of chapters can really solidify these topics if you are sketchy on them. The rest of the book is dedicated to going over the .net classes & explaining each one, providing in depth/useful examples for each.

The appendix of the book give a good enough overview of RMI & JavaMail, more than enough to get you going using either package.

While this is not a book for total beginners, if you need to learn the .net package, or want to take your Java skills to the network, buy this book!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Misapprehensions and misinformation. Avoid., July 8, 2001

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Avoid. This book appears to have quite a reputation, but despite being in its 2nd edition, it is riddled with errors. The book exhibits some fundamental misapprehensions about TCP/IP; as a result it perpetrates some astonishing misinformation, much of it quite basic. Partial list: the nature of a socket close operation; what IOException when closing a socket means; what happens when the listen backlog is exceeded; specification of the ServerSocket constructors; Nagle's algorithm (Socket.setTcpNoDelay); linger; keepalive; etc etc.

Of the examples which do work, the PortScanner and LocalPortScanner are provided in versions which perpetrate atrocities on the local machine and network by not closing sockets. Multi-homing very cursorily treated, not even indexed. Firewalls apparently treated in one page. Role of TTL in multicast apparently ignored.

The text is verbose and repetitive, and a number of the examples are irrelevant. Fully 50% of the Sockets for Servers chapter consists of a rather irrelevant excursion into HTTP and HTML; the examples have bugs, not that they have much point. Also, what pray have HTML rendering and parsing in Swing got to do with networking? 30 irrelevant pages on this; nice to have, but why here?

Author seems to think HotSpot is a JIT. Typos in the index, not encouraging. Many impending JDK 1.4 enhancements will shortly obsolete this book. Avoid it. For TCP/IP and UDP fundamentals, buy W.R. Stevens Unix Network Programming. -

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5.0 out of 5 stars In-depth API coverage, November 10, 2004

By	Jack D. Herrington "engineer and author" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Java Network Programming, Third Edition (Paperback)

The value of this book is in the depth of the coverage it gives to every topic. As opposed to the usual code fragments glued together with the necessary minimum of expository text, this book takes it's time to explain topics in detail. It's clear that in it's third revision the author has learned how to teach the Java network APIs.

Topics covered include both client and server code with sockets and UDP, non-blocking I/O, and protocol and content handlers, as well as many others. This is very in-depth, very well written with effective use of graphics. And better yet you will learn about the protocols themselves as well as the APIs.

This is an outstanding book, easily the best book, on the Java network APIs.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good reference, mediocre otherwise.
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Published 20 months ago by TFK

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent and thorough treatment of networking in Java
This book begins with three chapters that outline how networks and network programs work. Chapter 1 is a gentle introduction to network programming in Java and explores some of... Read more

Published on January 12, 2007 by calvinnme

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Published on March 25, 2006 by Jin Yoo Kim

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Published on August 15, 2005 by Anil J. Saldhana

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Published on November 23, 2004 by E. Wuehler

4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Choice
I read this book and really enjoyed it. It is easy to read, and has lots of useful code. I like all books written by this author. Read more

Published on January 9, 2004 by Michael Pucciarelli

1.0 out of 5 stars Misapprehensions and misinformation. Avoid.
Avoid. This book appears to have quite a reputation, but despite being in its 2nd edition, it is riddled with errors. Read more

Published on July 9, 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough but not very user friendly
Let me start off by saying that the content is very thorough. It covers the topic extremely well, and the examples are good. Read more

Published on June 17, 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book, easy and fun to read
If you really want to understand how networking works in Java, buy this book and read it. You will not be disappointed. Read more

Published on May 19, 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Too good to pass up...
In regards to the revised edition of the book, it is an excellent one. I found the explanations clear and concise and I was able to apply all the examples I found in creating the... Read more

Published on March 13, 2001

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