17.10. Summary
Java sockets let you create network clients or servers that can communicate with general-purpose network programs written in any language. The process of building a client is straightforward: open a socket, create input and output streams from the socket, use these streams for communication, then close the socket. A server is similar but waits for an incoming connection before the socket can be created. Both types of systems frequently need to parse input they receive, and a StringTokenizer is a convenient tool for this. RMI is a powerful and convenient alternative when distributing processing among Java-only systems.
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