Creating a Connection—The Connector Class

In the GCF, connections are established using the class Connector. By passing a URL describing the protocol to the open method of the Connector class, a connection is established. For example, the following line opens a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) connection to the address http://java.sun.com:

try {
   Connection connection = Connector.open ("http://java.sun.com");
}
catch (IOException e) {
    // an error occurred while opening the connection.
}

In the case of an error, an IOException is thrown. Most of the GCF methods can throw an IOException in order to report I/O errors to the application.

If the connection is established successfully, an instance of a class implementing the Connection interfaces ...

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