The book provides complete coverage of fundamental IP networking in Java. It introduces the concepts behind TCP/IP and UDP and their intended use and purpose; gives complete coverage of Java networking APIs, includes an extended discussion of advanced server design, so that the various design principles and tradeoffs concerned are discussed and equips the reader with analytic queuing-theory tools to evaluate design alternatives; covers UDP multicasting, and covers multi-homed hosts, leading the reader to understand the extra programming steps and design considerations required in such environments. After reading this book the reader will have an advanced knowledge of fundamental network design and programming concepts in the Java language, enabling them to design and implement distributed applications with advanced features and to predict their performance. Special emphasis is given to the scalable I/O facilities of Java 1.4 as well as complete treatments of multi-homing and UDP both unicast and multicast.

From the Author:

I wrote this book because of my deep dissatisfaction with the existing Java texts and with Sun's javadoc, as evidenced on the Java Developer Connection forums on which I am pretty well-known. Most of these books try to cover all known aspects of Java networking and IPC in 1280 pages with screen shots, and do it very badly. Some of the smaller books are more specialized but I'm afraid that every one of them I have examined is riddled with errors and irrelevancies, including some very well-known titles indeed. In this book I have aimed at being as correct and authoritative as W.R. Stevens in his TCP/IP Illustrated and Unix Network Programming books, which are constantly by my side.

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