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Summary: An excellent introduction for Network Programming with Java
Review: I really think this is a wonderful book, touches many network subjects, and provides a decent background coverage. I haven't read the previous version whom many of the other reviewers said was outdated, but this book seems very up to date, and discusses the new network capabilities of Java 1.3. To sum it up, I think this book provides an excellent introduction to Java network programming, and will be good to anyone who needs to learn this information.
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Summary: This book is outdated
Review: If you carefully go thru all the reviews , you can make out that the reviews in 1997 give a very positive feedback about the book. But at this point of time this book definetely needs a revision.
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Summary: Wonderful book, easy and fun to read
Review: If you really want to understand how networking works in Java, buy this book and read it. You will not be disappointed.The book does an excellent job of documenting how the java.net package works and an even better job of displaying useful examples. Very rarely do I find my self compiling and running code examples given in books. However, with this book I did it routinely because they were just to tempting not to run! I found the chapters on HTML parsing, Threads, Sockets, JavaMail and RMI to be the most useful.
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Summary: Comprehensive reference (3rd Edition)
Review: If you're doing anything with Java and Network I/O programming, the topic will most likely be covered in this book. The author does a great job describing not only how Java handles network programming, but the concepts and details of network programming in general. The book takes the core java.net classes and describes each method, what it does, how to use it, what to watch for, code examples, etc - it takes the API Javadoc and expands upon it.
It's a great Java Network API reference book.
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Summary: Too good to pass up...
Review: In regards to the revised edition of the book, it is an excellent one. I found the explanations clear and concise and I was able to apply all the examples I found in creating the tiny prototypes before designing the real application. It is an excellent introduction and grounding in Network Programming. The inclusion of JavaMail is also very helpful and allowed me to complete my program in record time. I hope he gets rich from this one alone!
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Summary: Excellent Book; A must read for java network programming
Review: It has good coverage of all important areas of java networking. Good working examples. Good descriptions of classes. Good reference for developing real internet applications
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Summary: Basically an annotated javadoc
Review: It's competent, though it is in need of updating. The main problem is that all the book does is go through the API, class by class, method by method. If you are an intermediate programmer you can just read the javadoc and get the same thing. I would have liked some advice on architecture, patterns, etc.
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Summary: Network Programming Book with Few Network Topics...
Review: Java Network Programming is a great topic and very challenging to write about. In the past decade, Client Server and Networking where the most popular topics in the industry. Initially, Java was not an Internet/Web language oriented. Later versions, the language migrated into a more network oriented and became the language of choice among financial institutions, and others, because of its high productivity capabilities (mainly, shorter development curve.) Here are a few points that I'd like to make concerning this book: 1.The authors took on themselves a very large assignment, rather than reducing the scope of the book, so they could deal efficiently with the content and represent it in more technical details and depth, just as O'Reilly publication does so often. The variety of topics discussed in the book could be topics for books themselves, such as Web Concepts, Threads, Java I/O... 2.A few topics are not directly affiliated with Networking, such as Threads, Java Mail API, etc. I was surprised to find the "HTML in Swing" chapter, which is a total shift from the Networking Layer to the Presentation Layer. 3.The book is missing important and advanced topics in Networking, such as IIOP, Distributed Objects, EJB and maybe CORBA. I was surprised to find a chapter about RMI - an old form of distributed objects, which was replaced by IIOP and EJB in recent years. RMI was combined with IIOP (RMI/IIOP) because its poor performance. Why would anyone want to study an old topic? 4.This book is lacking of a conceptual discussion about Networking Layers in general, to help users understand why with Java, Network Programming could be a piece of cake... Conceptually speaking, indeed, with Java it's a much easier task. 5.The bright spot here are the samples that are almost in a "copy and paste" condition. They are easy to understand and implement.
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Summary: Very thorough but not very user friendly
Review: Let me start off by saying that the content is very thorough. It covers the topic extremely well, and the examples are good. This book, however, is not for the newcomer to Java. It is assumed that you are fairly familiar with the language, and the examples are not explained very well. The text is also a bit dry. I found it hard to sit down and read. Dispite the minor issue of user friendliness, this is an excellent reference on the subject of networking, and I recommed it to anyone who knows Java fairly well and wants to expand their horizons.
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Summary: Real meat inside
Review: Let's say you want to create a real server software from scratch for many platforms ?... what do you need ? Java, this book, and some work of course. Forget lost time wandering for clues and wannabe tutorials : update information, exemples, a comprehensive index, all is here.
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