Java Network Programming, 2nd Edition

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 URLs. 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.

If I've succeeded in piqueing your interest, you should be able to find Java Network Programming at almost any bookstore that carries computer books including the online bookstore, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, FatBrain and Borders

If you need to special order it, the ISBN number is 1-565-92870-9. It's $39.95, published by O'Reilly, and written by me, Elliotte Rusty Harold.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Why Networked Java?

•      What Can a Network Program Do?
•      But Wait!-There's More!

2. Basic Network Concepts

•      Networks
•      The Layers of a Network
•      IP, TCP, and UDP
•      The Internet
•      The Client/Server Model
•      Internet Standards

3. Basic Web Concepts

•      URIs
•      HTML, SGML, and XML
•      HTTP
•      MIME
•      CGI
•      Applets and Security

4. Java I/O

•      Output Streams
•      Input Streams
•      Filter Streams
•      Readers and Writers

5. Threads

•      Running Threads
•      Returning Information from a Thread
•      Synchronization
•      Deadlock
•      Thread Scheduling
•      Thread Pools

6. Looking Up Internet Addresses

•      DNS, IP Addresses, and All That
•      The InetAddress Class
•      Some Useful Programs

7. Retrieving Data with URLs

•      The URL Class
•      The URLEncoder and URLDecoder Classes
•      Communicating with CGIs and Servlets Through GET
•      Accessing Password-Protected Sites

8. HTML in Swing

•      HTML on Components
•      JEditorPane
•      Parsing HTML

9. The Network Methods of java.applet.Applet

•      Using java.applet.Applet to Download Data
•      The ImageObserver Interface
•      The MediaTracker Class
•      Network Methods of java.applet.AppletContext

10. Sockets for Clients

•      Socket Basics
•      Investigating Protocols with Telnet
•      The Socket Class
•      Socket Exceptions
•      Examples

11. Sockets for Servers

•      The ServerSocket Class
•      Some Useful Servers

12. Secure Sockets

•      Secure Communications
•      Creating Secure Client Sockets
•      Methods of the SSLSocket Class
•      Creating Secure Server Sockets
•      Methods of the SSLServerSocket Class

13. UDP Datagrams and Sockets

•      The UDP Protocol
•      The DatagramPacket Class
•      The DatagramSocket Class
•      Some Useful Applications

14. Multicast Sockets

•      What Is a Multicast Socket?
•      Working with Multicast Sockets
•      Two Simple Examples

15. The URLConnection Class

•      Opening URLConnections
•      Reading Data from a Server
•      Reading the Header
•      Configuring the Connection
•      Configuring the Client Request MIME Header
•      Writing Data to a Server
•      Content Handlers
•      The Object Methods
•      Security Considerations for URLConnections
•      Guessing MIME Types
•      HttpURLConnection
•      JarURLConnection

16. Protocol Handlers

•      What Is a Protocol Handler?
•      The URLStreamHandler Class
•      Writing a Protocol Handler
•      More Protocol Handler Examples and Techniques
•      The URLStreamHandlerFactory Interface

17. Content Handlers

•      What Is a Content Handler?
•      The ContentHandler Class
•      The ContentHandlerFactory Interface
•      A Content Handler for an Image Format: image/x-fits

18. Remote Method Invocation

•      What Is Remote Method Invocation?
•      Implementation
•      Loading Classes at Runtime
•      The java.rmi Package
•      The java.rmi.registry Package
•      The java.rmi.server Package

19. The JavaMail API

•      What Is the JavaMail API?
•      Sending Email
•      Receiving Mail
•      Password Authentication
•      Addresses
•      The URLName Class
•      The Message Class
•      The Part Interface
•      Multipart Messages and File Attachments
•      MIME Messages
•      Folders

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