Java Network Programming

Java Network Programming
Applets
Servlets, JSP
Sockets Programming
RMI
URL
Java Network Programming 1

Applets
● GUI program that runs in a web browser.
● Java bytecode comes from a web server (along
with a web page).
● Security Issues!
– sandbox
● Sample applet for those interested...

Servlets
● Server Side Java programming
– No GUI programming.
– Dynamic web page creation – responds to web
requests.
– Efficiency issues (threads, persistent objects, etc)
– Security Issues
– JSP: Java Server Pages
● a different way to create servlets – easier than full Java
class definitions.

Network Programming
● Communication between processes
● Many approaches:
– low level network API: sockets
● need to understand networking, addressing, etc.
– Object oriented approaches: RMI, CORBA
– Service based approaches: URL class.
– there are others

Sockets
● Sockets API is popular C progamming API.
● A socket is an abstract communication endpoint.
● Different kinds of sockets for different kinds of
communication:
– Stream (connected byte stream).
– Datagram (individual messages).
● To use sockets you need to understand lots of
network stuff, including the OSI reference model,
network addressing, byte-ordering, ...

Java Sockets
● Sockets in Java is much simpler than in C
– hides some of the details.
– API is “fit” to be used with TCP/IP, not as generic.
● Different objects used for different kinds of
network communication:
– Socket (Stream Client)
– ServerSocket (Stream Server)
– DatagramSocket (Message oriented).

Socket and ServerSocket
(TCP based communication)
● Establish a connection with peer process.
● Socket provides an IO stream associated with the
connection.
– all Java IO methods/Objects can be used.
● New exceptions to deal with.
● Great it what you really need is to communicate
using nothing more than a stream.
● Other endpoint could be written in any language!

DatagramSocket and
DatagramPacket (UDP)
● Message-oriented communication.
– send a message, receive a message
– not dependent on Java IO support...
● Lots of issues:
– not reliable.
– order not guaranteed.
– duplication of messages is possible.
– really need to understand networking to use
effectively.
The Internet Programming
● Every endpoint is identified by a triple:
– Protocol (UDP vs. TCP).
– Port number (identifies the service)
– IP address (corresponds to a hostname)
● Humans typically use hostnames
● The networking code uses IP addresses
google.com vs. 64.233.187.99

Java Sockets and IP Addresses
● class InetAddress
● Methods
static InetAddress getByName(String);
static InetAddress getLocalHost();
byte getAddress();
String getHostAddress();
String getHostName();

TCP (stream) Client vs. Server
● Clients use Socket object
– need to specify the address of the server!
● IP address or hostname and port number
● can get stream associated with the connection.
● Servers use ServerSocket object
– need to set server port number.
– can receive new connections.
● new connection creates a Socket object.

Sample Talk Client/Server
● Talker class:
– threaded(runnable)
– reads from an input stream, writes to an output stream.
● TalkServer class:
– creates ServerSocket, waits for client to connect.
– creates 2 Talker objects and runs them.
● TalkClient class:
– creates Socket, connects to server.
– creates 2 Talker objects and runs them.

RMI Remote Method Invocation
● Basic idea is to make Java objects available over
the network.
● Server must include code that looks for requests
– at some address (service name).
– call the requested method and return the result.
– serialization!
● Client must create remote objects
– after this step there is syntactic difference in the code!

RMI Sample Code
● SimpleRMI, AlternativeSimpleRMI
– remote addition, subtraction, ...
– two methods of creating server objects that can
service clients.
● SortRMI
– remote sort method
– can easily send/receive complex object types.

URL support
● Uniform Resource Locator: pointer to some
resource (typically on the WWW).
● Java has a URL class that can:
– build and parse URLs
– create a URLConnection object
● can interact with the server
– establish a connection to a URL
● give you an InputStream so you can read from the server.
● useful if all you want to do is fetch a web document.
Some URL Methods
String getHost();
String getPath();
String getQuery();
InputStream openStream();
URLConnection openConnection();

Fetch and print a web page
try {
URL u = new URL("http://www.google.com");
BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader( u.openStream()));
String s;
while ( (s = r.readLine()) != null)
System.out.print(s);
} catch (... I/O and URL Exceptions ..

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