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.
