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Java Network Programming (Java (O'Reilly)) ReviewAvoid. This book appears to have quite a reputation, but despite being in its 2nd edition, it is riddled with errors. The book exhibits some fundamental misapprehensions about TCP/IP; as a result it perpetrates some astonishing misinformation, much of it quite basic. Partial list: the nature of a socket close operation; what IOException when closing a socket means; what happens when the listen backlog is exceeded; specification of the ServerSocket constructors; Nagle's algorithm (Socket.setTcpNoDelay); linger; keepalive; etc etc.
Of the examples which do work, the PortScanner and LocalPortScanner are provided in versions which perpetrate atrocities on the local machine and network by not closing sockets. Multi-homing very cursorily treated, not even indexed. Firewalls apparently treated in one page. Role of TTL in multicast apparently ignored.
The text is verbose and repetitive, and a number of the examples are irrelevant. Fully 50% of the Sockets for Servers chapter consists of a rather irrelevant excursion into HTTP and HTML; the examples have bugs, not that they have much point. Also, what pray have HTML rendering and parsing in Swing got to do with networking? 30 irrelevant pages on this; nice to have, but why here?
Author seems to think HotSpot is a JIT. Typos in the index, not encouraging. Many impending JDK 1.4 enhancements will shortly obsolete this book. Avoid it. For TCP/IP and UDP fundamentals, buy W.R. Stevens Unix Network Programming. -Java Network Programming (Java (O'Reilly)) Overview
Java Network Programming, 2nd Edition, is a complete introductionto developing network programs (both applets and applications) using Java,covering everything from Networking fundamentals to remote methodinvocation (RMI).It includes chapters on TCP and UDP sockets, multicastingprotocol and content handlers, and servlets.This second edition alsoincludes coverage of Java 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.New chapters cover multithreadednetwork programming, I/O, HTML parsing and display, the Java Mail API,the Java Secure Sockets Extension, and more.


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