Java™ Network Programming and Distributed Computing

6.7. Creating a TCP Server

One of the most enjoyable parts of networking is writing a network server. Clients send requests and respond to data sent back, but the server performs most of the real work. This next example is of a daytime server (which you can test using the client described in Section 6.5).

Code for DaytimeServer

 import java.net.*; import java.io.*; // Chapter 6, Listing 2 public class DaytimeServer { public static final int SERVICE_PORT = 13; public static void main(String args[]) { try { // Bind to the service port, to grant clients // access to the TCP daytime service ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket (SERVICE_PORT); System.out.println ("Daytime service started"); // Loop indefinitely, accepting clients for (;;) { // Get ...