Custom Networking: Table of Contents

Overview of Networking

What You May Already Know About Networking in Java

Networking Basics

Working with URLs

What Is a URL?

Creating a URL

Parsing a URL

Reading Directly from a URL

Connecting to a URL

Reading from and Writing to a URLConnection

All About Sockets

What Is a Socket?

Reading from and Writing to a Socket

Writing the Server Side of a Socket

All About Datagrams

What Is a Datagram?

Writing a Datagram Client and Server

Broadcasting to Multiple Recipients