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.
- URLConnection Caching API
Detailed overview, with code samples, of the new cache management API.
- Cookie Management
Overview of how to deal with cookies, often used as an HTTP state management
mechanism, in J2SE 5.0.
- Persistent Connections
Overview of the HTTP persistent connections (aka keep alive mechanisms),
and the means to control them.
- Java Networking and Proxies
In depth exploration, with code samples, of proxy management Java networking
APIs including the newly introduced ProxySelector mechanism.
- 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
