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Summary: The Best Java Networking book currently available
Review: This books fills a niche in the Java book market. Personally, I've been waiting for Stevens to take his "UNIX Network Programming" book and port it to Java. Since that hasn't happened, I looked at this new book with
interest.
It does a good job of covering all the network basics and all the networking features of Java. It even includes current topics such as RMI and
the Server API. I'd recommend this book to anyone who has never done network programming before and is trying to.
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Summary: Pretty good book, but somewhat outdated and some errors
Review: This is a good book about Java networking, but many of the methods have been deprecated by Java Version 1.1. Also, there are a few minor errors in the code that are correctable by debugging (this actually helped me to learn the topic more in depth - I've been e-mailing the corrections). I hope Mr. Harold comes out with a new release updated for JDK1.1 at least.
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Summary: Four Stars!
Review: This was my textbook for a UCSC Extension Java Network Programming class. Harold's approach is to bring someone new into the Java Networking world with ease and work up to some involved programming examples. The coding snippets were very useful, they actually ran and became my starting point in several of my homeworks. RMI has to be expanded more than what it has now. I learned my RMI through the instructor, Mukund Mohan, who was tops!
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Summary: sleepping when writing this book
Review: Too many mistakes were made in this book.Not even basic explanation can be seen here.I have read this book 3 times and finally decide to change another book.This writer never takes the side of reader.He should have tested all code with JDK.
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Summary: Good explanation of the java.net.* and java.rmi classes
Review: Unfortunately, that's all it is. This book does a great job of explaining this section of the jdk complete with useful and insightful examples. I learned how to use RMI, and the various URL classes painlessly.But when it comes to the existing limitations in the java classes (like non-existing content handlers for some types of data), Mr. Harold simply states that a limitation exists. He does not explain how to create new content handlers, for example. There is no direction or help given in overcoming these limitations. Treatment of Corba and/or COM would also be very useful in a book about Java network programming. Even with these caveats, if you are having trouble getting your head around the java.net classes, then this book does that very well. I haven't seen any other book that explains these classes in depth.
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