Java Network Programming

by Harold, Elliotte Rusty

• ISBN13: 9781565928701
• ISBN10: 1565928709
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Java Network Programming,2nd Edition, is a complete introduction to developing network programs (both applets and applications) using Java, covering 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.

Author Biography

Elliotte Rusty Harold is the author of Cafe au Lait, an important online resource for Java-related news

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Why Networked Java?	1	(19)
What Can a Network Program Do?	2	(17)
But Wait!---There's More!	19	(1)
Basic Network Concepts	20	(29)
Networks	20	(2)
The Layers of a Network	22	(6)
IP, TCP, and UDP	28	(4)
The Internet	32	(5)
The Client/Server Model	37	(2)
Internet Standards	39	(10)
Basic Web Concepts	49	(26)
URIs	50	(6)
HTML, SGML, and XML	56	(2)
HTTP	58	(5)
MIME	63	(5)
CGI	68	(3)
Applets and Security	71	(4)
Java I/O	75	(42)
Output Streams	76	(4)
Input Streams	80	(4)
Filter Streams	84	(17)
Readers and Writers	101	(16)
Threads	117	(48)
Running Threads	119	(5)
Returning Information from a Thread	124	(12)
Synchronization	136	(8)
Deadlock	144	(1)
Thread Scheduling	145	(14)
Thread Pools	159	(6)
Looking Up Internet Addresses	165	(28)
DNS, IP Addresses, and All That	165	(2)
The InetAddress Class	167	(14)
Some Useful Programs	181	(12)
Retrieving Data with URLs	193	(43)
The URL Class	193	(25)
The URLEncoder and URLDecoder Classes	218	(5)
Communicating with CGIs and Servlets Through GET	223	(5)
Accessing Password-Protected Sites	228	(8)
HTML in Swing	236	(31)
HTML on Components	236	(2)
JEditorPane	238	(9)
Parsing HTML	247	(20)
The Network Methods of java.applet.Applet	267	(34)
Using java.applet.Applet to Download Data	267	(9)
The ImageObserver Interface	276	(5)
The Media Tracker Class	281	(16)
Network Methods of java.applet.AppletContext	297	(4)
Sockets for Clients	301	(49)
Socket Basics	302	(1)
Investigating Protocols with Telnet	302	(2)
The Socket Class	304	(25)
Socket Exceptions	329	(1)
Examples	330	(20)
Sockets for Servers	350	(38)
The ServerSocket Class	351	(13)
Some Useful Servers	364	(24)
Secure Sockets	388	(23)
Secure Communications	389	(4)
Creating Secure Client Sockets	393	(4)
Methods of the SSLSocket Class	397	(6)
Creating Secure Server Sockets	403	(5)
Methods of the SSLServerSocket Class	408	(3)
UDP Datagrams and Sockets	411	(39)
The UDP Protocol	411	(2)
The DatagramPacket Class	413	(10)
The DatagramSocket Class	423	(12)
Some Useful Applications	435	(15)
Multicast Sockets	450	(22)
What Is a Multicast Socket?	451	(10)
Working with Multicast Sockets	461	(5)
Two Simple Examples	466	(6)
The URLConnection Class	472	(57)
Opening URLConnections	473	(2)
Reading Data from a Server	475	(1)
Reading the Header	476	(9)
Configuring the Connection	485	(10)
Configuring the Client Request MIME Header	495	(2)
Writing Data to a Server	497	(6)
Content Handlers	503	(2)
The Object Methods	505	(1)
Security Considerations for URLConnections	505	(1)
Guessing MIME Types	506	(3)
HttpURLConnection	509	(16)
JarURLConnection	525	(4)
Protocol Handlers	529	(31)
What Is a Protocol Handler?	530	(4)
The URLStreamHandler Class	534	(8)
Writing a Protocol Handler	542	(4)
More Protocol Handler Examples and Techniques	546	(10)
The URLStreamHandlerFactory Interface	556	(4)
Content Handlers	560	(34)
What Is a Content Handler?	562	(3)
The ContentHandler Class	565	(13)
The ContentHandlerFactory Interface	578	(3)
A Content Handler for an Image Format: image/x-fits	581	(13)
Remote Method Invocation	594	(40)
What Is Remote Method Invocation?	594	(6)
Implementation	600	(9)
Loading Classes at Runtime	609	(8)
The java.rmi Package	617	(9)
The java.rmi.registry Package	626	(2)
The java.rmi.server Package	628	(6)
The JavaMail API	634	(77)
What Is the JavaMail API?	635	(2)
Sending Email	637	(11)
Receiving Mail	648	(6)
Password Authentication	654	(4)
Addresses	658	(5)
The URLName Class	663	(3)
The Message Class	666	(12)
The Part Interface	678	(12)
Multipart Messages and File Attachments	690	(5)
MIME Messages	695	(2)
Folders	697	(14)
Index	711