JAVA NETWORKING SOCKET OVERVIEW CONTENTS

JAVA NETWORKING SOCKET OVERVIEW CONTENTS

SOCKET OVERVIEW

NETWORKING SOCKET OVERVIEW

Socket is the most commonly used term in network  programming.

Socket provides the way by which the computers can communicate 

using connection oriented or connection less communication.

A socket is basically an endpoint of a two-way communication link between two programs running on the network.

The java.net.Socket  class represents the socket.

Two key classes are used to create the socket.

                                                   I.          ServerSocke

                                                 II.          Socket

The server socket can be created with the help of port number.

ServerSocket server_socket =new Socket(123)

The socket object can be created with the help of hostname and port number.

Socket client = new Socket(serverName.portNumber)

                        I.          TCP Sockets : These are denoted by streams

II.          UDP Sockets : These are denoted by datagrams