Networking Features

New Features and Enhancements

• New Features and Enhancements in version 1.4 of the Java 2 SDK.

• Networking Release Notes online at java.sun.com.

• Previous changes and enhancements made in version 1.3 of the Java 2 SDK.

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

• 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

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