New Features and Enhancements
Guides
For completeness, this section includes documentation related to
changes to the java.net package made previously in
the Java 1.1 platform:
- Networking Overview (also available
in PDF)
Overview of networking facilities in java.net, including Addressing,
Making TCP Connections, Sending/Receiving Datagram Packets via UDP, Locating/Identifying
Network Resources, and Security.
- IPv6 Support (also available
in PDF)
IPv6 support, including special IPv6 address types and dual-stack node.
- Networking Properties
Descriptions of properties used by networking.
- Orderly Versus Abortive Connection
Release in Java
How to ensure orderly or graceful release of TCP connections in Networking
applications.
- Extendable Socket and ServerSocket
The design, rationale, and how to do it.
- Socket Options
Support for popular BSD-style options in the java base classes.
- Socket Exceptions
Subclasses of SocketException for finer granularity of handling network errors.
- Miscellaneous
Important bug fixes, new constructors, new methods, and more.
Networking API Reference
