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Sockets programming in Java: A tutorial

Writing your own client/server applications can be done seamlessly using Java

By Qusay H. Mahmoud, JavaWorld.com, 12/11/96

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The java.net package provides a powerful and flexibile infrastructure for network programming, so you are encouraged to refer to that package if you would like to know the classes that are provided.

Sun.* packages have some good classes for networking, however you are not encouraged to use those classes at the moment because they may change in the next release. Also, some of the classes are not portable across all platforms.

About the author

Qusay H. Mahmoud is a graduate student in computer science at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus, Canada. He is currently working on his master's thesis as well as teaching a computer science course at the University. His thesis concentrates on the Web and Java, and the results of his thesis will be available online as soon as he is finished. He has been working with Java since it was released to the public.