What is a Socket? • Sockets allow communication between two different processes on the same or different machines. • A socket is bound to a port number so that the transport layer can …

We present a tutorial on socket programming in Java. This tutorial illustrates several examples on the two types of socket APIs: connectionless datagram sockets and connection-oriented …

There are methods to get an input stream for a socket and an output stream for the socket. The java.net.ServerSocket class represents a server socket. It is constructed on a particular port. …

In this section we develop a simple client application that runs over TCP; in the next section, we develop a simple client application that runs over UDP. We present these simple TCP and …

Sockets are a means of using IP to communicate between machines, so sockets are one major feature that allows Java to interoperate with legacy systems by simply talking to existing …

This tutorial presents an introduction to sockets programming over TCP/IP networks and shows how to write client/server applications in Java. The Unix input/output (I/O) system follows a …

Networking with Java N-7 Sockets •A socket is a connection on one computer used to send data back and forth •The application consists of multiple processes, one running on each computer …

This tutorial will tell you what you really need to know to start using sockets effectively in your Java code. Specifically, we'll cover: If you can describe how to use the classes in the java.net …

JAVA Sockets • In Package java.net – java.net.Socket • Implements client sockets (also called just “sockets”). • An endpoint for communication between two machines. • Constructor and …

The chapter introduces the java.net package containing various classes re-quired for creating sockets and message communication using two diff erent protocols. It provides several …