Java Networking

For all those for whom Java connotes something other than their caffeine delivery system (despite the coffee imagery), and who are savvy about structured programming language and object-oriented concepts, Curtois (AllPen Software, Inc.) offers techniques, sample codes, and examples on code organization, prototyping, debugging, and optimization: steps en route to building powerful communications and networking applications on the Internet. Chapter titles reflect a sense of humor: streams of fury, making the URL connection, better living through threads, networking with sockets, working smart with Java, datagrams a-go-go, linking with the natives, and utility classes used in the examples. This book opens with an in-depth discussion of streams, which are essential to all Java communication. The author then moves on to the Internet, detailing the URL related classes, especially java.net.URL and java.netURLConnection. He then covers threads, sockets.