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Preface

Java''s growth over the last 10 years has been
nothing short of phenomenal. Given Java''s rapid rise
to prominence and the even more spectacular growth of the Internet,
it''s a little surprising that network programming in
Java is still so mysterious to so many. It doesn''t
have to be. In fact, writing network programs in Java is quite
simple, as this book will show. Readers with previous experience in
network programming in a Unix, Windows, or Macintosh environment
should be pleasantly surprised at how much easier it is to write
equivalent programs in Java. The Java core API includes well-designed
interfaces to most network features. Indeed, there is very little
application-layer network software you can write in C or C++ that you
can''t write more easily in Java. Java
Network Programming, 3rd Edition endeavors to show you how
to take advantage of Java''s network class library to
quickly and easily write programs that accomplish many common
networking tasks. Some of these include:

Browsing the Web with HTTP

Parsing and rendering HTML

Sending email with SMTP

Receiving email with POP and IMAP

Writing multithreaded servers

Installing new protocol and content handlers into browsers

Encrypting communications for confidentiality, authentication, and
guaranteed message integrity

Designing GUI clients for network services

Posting data to server-side programs

Looking up hosts using DNS

Downloading files with anonymous FTP

Connecting sockets for low-level network communication

Distributing applications across multiple systems with Remote Method
Invocation

Java is the first language to provide such a powerful cross-platform
network library, which handles all these diverse tasks.
Java Network Programming exposes the power and
sophistication of this library. This book''s goal is
to enable you to start using Java as a platform for serious network
programming. To do so, this book provides a general background in
network fundamentals, as well as detailed discussions of
Java''s facilities for writing network programs.
You''ll learn how to write Java programs that share
data across the Internet for games, collaboration, software updates,
file transfer, and more. You''ll also get a
behind-the-scenes look at HTTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, and the other protocols
that support the Internet and the Web. When you finish this book,
you''ll have the knowledge and the tools to create
the next generation of software that takes full advantage of the
Internet.