BCA Network Programming

Network Programing Features and Scope, Network Programming Language, Tools & Platforms, Client and Server Applications, Client server model and software design

The InetAddress Class: Creating New InetAddress Objects, Getter, Methods, Address Types, Testing Reachability and Object Methods, Inet4Address and Inet6Address, The Network Interface Class: Factory Method & Getter Method, Some Useful Programs: SpamCheck, Processing Web Server Logfiles

URIs: URLs and Relative URLs, The URL Class: Creating New URLs, Retrieving Data From a URL, Splitting a URL into Pieces, Equality & Comparison and Conversion, The URI Class: Constructing a URI, The Parts of the URI, Resolving Relative URIs, Equality & Comparison and String Representation, x-www-form-urlencoded: URL Encoder and URL Decoder, Proxies: System Properties, The ProxyClass and The ProxySelector Class, Communicating with Server-Side Programs Through GET, Accessing Password-Protected Sites: The Authenticator Class, The PasswordAuthentication Class and The JPasswordField Class

The protocol: Keep-Alive, HTTP Methods, The Request Body, Cookies: CookieManager and CookiesStore

Openning URLConnections, Reading Data from Server, Reading Header: Retrieving specific Header Fields and Retrieving Arbitrary Header Fields, Cache: Web Cache for Java, Configuring the Connection: protected URL url, protected boolean connected, protected boolean allowUserInteraction, protected boolean doInput, protected boolean doOutput, protected boolean ifModificationSince, protected boolean useCaches and Timeouts, Configuring the Client Request HTTP Header, Security Considerations for URLConnections, Guessing MIME Media Types, HttpURLConnection: The Request Methods, Disconnecting from the Server, Handling Server Responses, Proxies and Streaming Mode

Introduction to Socket, Using Sockets: Investigating Protocols with telnet, Reading from Servers with Sockets, Writing to Servers with Sockets, Constructing and connecting Sockets: Basic Constructors, Picking a Local Interface to Connect From, Constructing Without Connecting, Socket Addresses and Proxy Servers, Getting Information about a Socket: Closed or Connected?, toString(), Setting Socket Options: TCP_NODELAY, SO_LINGER, SO_TIMEOUT, SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF, SO_KEEPALIVE, OOBINLINE, SO_REUSEADDER and IP_TOS Class of Services, Socket in GUI Applications: Whois and A Network Client Library

Using ServerSockets: Serving Binary Data, Multithreaded Servers, Writing to Servers with Sockets and Closing Server Sockets, Logging: What to Log and How to Log, Constructing Server Sockets: Constructing Without Binding, Getting Information about Server Socket, Socket Options: SO_TIMEOUT, SO_RSUMEADDR, SO_RCVBUF and Class of Service, HTTP Servers: A Single File Server, A Redirector and A Full-Fledged HTTP Server

Secure Communication, Creating Secure Client Sockets, Event Handlers, Session Management, Client Mode, Creating Secure Server Socket, Configure SSLServerSockets: Choosing the Cipher Suits, Session Management and Client Mode

An Example Client and Server, Buffers: Creating Buffers, Filling and Draining, Bulk Methods, Data Conversion, View Buffers, Compacting Buffers, Duplicating Buffers, Slicing Buffers, Marking and Resetting, Object Methods, Channels: SocketChannel, ServerSocketChannel, The Channels Class, Asynchronous Channels, Socket Options, Readiness Selection: The Selector Class, The SelectionKey Class

UDP Protocol, UDP Clients, UDP Servers, The DatagramPacket Class: The Constructor, The get Methods, The setter Methods, The DatagramSocket Class: The Constructor, Sending and Receiving Datagrams, Managing Connections, Socket Options: SO_TIMEOUT, SORCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF, SO_RSUMEADDR, SO_BROADCAST and IP_TOS, UDP Applications: Simple UDP Clients, UDPServer and A UDP Echo Client, DatagramChannel: Using DatagramChannel

Multicasting: Multicast Address and Groups, Clients and Servers, Routers and Routing, Working with Multicast Sockets: The Constructor, Communicating with a Group

Defining and Implementing RMI Service Interface, Creating an RMI Server and Client, Running the RMI System