Chapter 12. Network Communications

IN THIS CHAPTER

Network communications in enterprise systems is TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). TCP/IP represents the fundamental communications protocol utilized by all other enterprise Java communications paradigms that you encounter in this book. Socket programming offers an API to the TCP/IP protocol stacks. The J2SE comes with a set of Java-based standard socket programming APIs in the java.net package.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • The basic concepts behind network and client/server computing.

  • The architecture of TCP/IP on top of which many other communication mechanisms are built.

  • The concepts and techniques ...

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