Java Networking
API Specification
API Enhancements
Tutorials and Programmer's Guides
- Networking Overview
Overview of networking facilities in java.net, including Addressing, Making TCP Connections, Sending/Receiving Datagram Packets via UDP, Locating/Identifying Network Resources, and Security.
- HTTP client API. The following articles describe features of the HTTP client API. (See java.net.HttpURLConnection for an overview).
- URLConnection Caching API
Detailed overview, with code samples, of the new cache management API. - Cookie Management
Overview of how to deal with cookies, often used as an HTTP state management mechanism, in Java SE 5.0. - Http authentication
Overview of how to use HTTP authentication, which schemes and protocols are supported, and the system properties that affect its behavior. - Persistent Connections
Overview of the HTTP persistent connections (aka keep alive mechanisms), and the means to control them.
- Java Networking and Proxies
In depth exploration, with code samples, of proxy management Java networking APIs including the newly introduced ProxySelector mechanism. - IPv6 Support
IPv6 support, including special IPv6 address types and dual-stack node.
- Networking Properties
Descriptions of properties used by networking.
- Orderly Versus Abortive Connection Release in Java
How to ensure orderly or graceful release of TCP connections in Networking applications.
- Extendable Socket and ServerSocket
The design, rationale, and how to do it.
- Socket Options
Support for popular BSD-style options in the java base classes.
- Socket Exceptions
Subclasses of SocketException for finer granularity of handling network errors.
- Sockets Direct Protocol, a trail in The Java Tutorials.
