Network Programming Syllabus

Unit 1: Introduction

2.1 The InetAddress Class: Creating New InetAddress Objects, Getter Methods, Address Types, Testing Reachability and Object Methods
2.2 Inet4Address and Inet6Address
2.3 The Network Interface Class: Factory Method & Getter Method
2.4 Some Useful Programs: SpamCheck, Processing Web Server Logfiles

3.1 URIs: URLs and Relative URLs
3.2 The URL Class: Creating New URLs, Retrieving Data From a URL, Splitting a URL into Pieces, Equality & Comparison and Conversion
3.3 The URI Class: Constructing a URI, The Parts of the URI, Resolving Relative URIs, Equality & Comparison and String Representation
3.4 x-www-form-urlencoded: URL Encoder and URL Decoder
3.5 Proxies: System Properties, The ProxyClass and The ProxySelector Class
3.6 Communicating with Server-Side Programs Through GET
3.7 Accessing Password-Protected Sites: The Authenticator Class, The PasswordAuthentication Class and The JPasswordField Class

5.1 Openning URLConnections
5.2 Reading Data from Server
5.3 Reading Header: Retrieving specific Header Fields and Retrieving Arbitrary Header Fields
5.4 Cache: Web Cache for Java
5.5 Configuring the Connection: protected URL url, protected boolean connected, protected boolean allowUserInteraction, protected boolean doInput, protected boolean doOutput, protected boolean ifModificationSince, protected boolean useCaches and Timeouts
5.6 Configuring the Client Request HTTP Header
5.7 Security Considerations for URLConnections
5.8 Guessing MIME Media Types
5.9 HttpURLConnection: The Request Methods, Disconnecting from the Server, Handling Server Responses, Proxies and Streaming Mode

6.1 Introduction to Socket
6.2 Using Sockets: Investigating Protocols with telnet, Reading from Servers with Sockets, Writing to Servers with Sockets
6.3 Constructing and connecting Sockets: Basic Constructors, Picking a Local Interface to Connect From, Constructing Without Connecting, Socket Addresses and Proxy Servers
6.4 Getting Information about a Socket: Closed or Connected?, toString()
6.5 Setting Socket Options: TCP_NODELAY, SO_LINGER, SO_TIMEOUT, SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF, SO_KEEPALIVE, OOBINLINE, SO_REUSEADDER and IP_TOS Class of Services
6.6 Socket in GUI Applications: Whois and A Network Client Library

7.1 Using ServerSockets: Serving Binary Data, Multithreaded Servers, Writing to Servers with Sockets and Closing Server Sockets
7.2 Logging: What to Log and How toLog
7.3 Constructing Server Sockets: Constructing Without Binding
7.4 Getting Information about Server Socket
7.5 Socket Options: SO_TIMEOUT, SO_RSUMEADDR, SO_RCVBUF and Class of Service
7.6 HTTP Servers: A Single File Server, A Redirector and A Full-Fledged HTTP Server

8.1 Secure Communication
8.2 Creating Secure Client Sockets
8.3 Event Handlers
8.4 Session Management
8.5 Client Mode
8.6 Creating Secure Server Socket
8.7 Configure SSLServerSockets: Choosing the Cipher Suits, Session Management and Client Mode

9.1 An Example Client and Server
9.2 Buffers: Creating Buffers, Filling and Draining, Bulk Methods, Data Conversion, View Buffers, Compacting Buffers, Duplicating Buffers, Slicing Buffers, Marking and Resetting, Object Methods
9.3 Channels: SocketChannel, ServerSocketChannel, The Channels Class, Asynchronous Channels, Socket Options
9.4 Readiness Selection: The Selector Class, The SelectionKey Class

10.1 UDP Protocol
10.2 UDP Clients
10.3 UDP Servers
10.4 The DatagramPacket Class: The Constructor, The get Methods, The setter Methods
10.5 The DatagramSocket Class: The Constructor, Sending and Receiving Datagrams, Managing Connections
10.6 Socket Options: SO_TIMEOUT, SORCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF, SO_RSUMEADDR, SO_BROADCAST and IP_TOS
10.7 UDP Applications: Simple UDP Clients, UDPServer and A UDP Echo Client
10.8 DatagramChannel: Using DatagramChannel

11.1 Multicasting: Multicast Address and Groups, Clients and Servers, Routers and Routing
11.2 Working with Multicast Sockets: The Constructor, Communicating with a Group