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Summary: excellent
Review: Java network programming is the best book I have seen to date on network programming
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Summary: Good, but missing crypto chapters from first edition
Review: Java Network Programming, Second Edition aims is the sequel to the highly popular Java Network Programming title, and picks up where the original left off. It offers considerably expanded coverage of the Java networking API, for the Java 2 platform. The authors build on chapters from the previous book, adding Java 2 specific methods and classes, and covering newer topics such as servlets, and CORBA (support for which was introduced in the Java 2 platform). Readers unfamiliar with network programming, and the intricacies of sockets, are guided fairly gently through the process, with a thorough coverage of I/O streams (including files), UDP and TCP sockets, from both client and server perspective. This gives a good grounding for later development, with plenty of example clients and servers. There's also coverage of Java HTTP support, which is quite simple to work through. That said, readers familiar with the original title may be in for some disappointment. The strong cryptography coverage of the first book has vanished, mentioned only in the preface as the subject of a future book. Not being very cryptographically minded myself, I really enjoyed reading about this topic in the first title. Nonetheless, with the number of pages in this thick reference, something probably had to go, to save room for other topics. Newer topics covered in the second edition (or greatly enhanced from coverage in the first edition) include servlets, CORBA, and remote method invocation (RMI). There's even more examples than in the first edition, but there are a few gaps where coverage could have been improved (for example, the new RMI activation features are barely mentioned, and the reader is referred instead to the RMI documentation of Sun). Servlet coverage could really be improved as well - there's some great books out on the market though that can be used in companion with this book Perhaps these, and other topics will be covered in a future addition. As networking books go, Java Network Programming 2Ed is close to the top, but has room for improvement. Currently, however, you won't find a book that can beat it, but for advanced topics you'll probably need a second title for topics like servlets or distributed computing. -- David Reilly, for the Java Coffee Break
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Summary: Wait... and look for a better book in the market
Review: Please dont get carried away by the wonderful reviews for this book by some readers. This is an expensive book but definitely not worth the money. The book should be named Java I/O programming rather than a network related title. Most of the book deals with Java streams and the network concepts are very few. At some point the book looks like an API reference than a full fledged text. This info is available in Java Docs for free . The font selected for printing the book is a real turn off. Another disaster from Manning . I will suggest reading Java Network programming title form O'Reilly which is due for release in July 2000 ( do not buy the 1997 edition ).
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Summary: Solid book on Java networking
Review: The book covers numerous topics. For background material, it covers TCP/IP theory, security, threading, exceptions, and streams. In the actual networking part of the book, it covers client-side and server-side networking, URLs, datagrams, multicasting, RMI, CORBA, Servlets, and Message Streams. In other words, there is a wide range of topics covered. The book is full of actual code examples. I especially enjoyed one like the finger client and the dns client. These are real world examples that will be extremely useful if I ever need to implement these protocols using Java. One error that I noticed was that it mentioned that the source code from the book was available from two web sites. In reality, at the present time, it is only available from the first one mentioned. Overall, it is a book that is worth owning and has the broadest coverage of any of the Java networking books on the market.
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Summary: Overall good intro
Review: The book covers some useful topics. The topics covered are some of the Java foundations needed to understand more enterprise solutions later down the line
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Summary: Overall good intro
Review: The book covers some useful topics. The topics covered are some of the Java foundations needed to understand more enterprise solutions later down the line
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Summary: this book doesn't live up to its title
Review: The title of this book is misleading, 80 percent of its contents can be found in sun's online documents,the coverage on CORBA and RMI is a joke. "java network for dummies" may be a better title. all the examples given in this book refects the author(s)'s understanding of networks is sub-skin deep. if you are a serious java network developer, buy Doug Lea 's book and don't waste your money on this one.
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Summary: A Good Reference, not much more...
Review: This book was so-so on the line of examples, but made an excellent reference for common functions and return types. I am not ashamed to have bought this book in conjunction with TCP/IP Sockets in Java: A Programmers Guide ; in fact i'm quite happy i did. The latter book proved to be more beneficial in my Advanced java class (Summer / 03). It proved a decent companion, and still does to this day.
All in all, don't by this book and expect examples, just good reference material and moderately documented methods and return types.
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Summary: Great book for advanced java network programmers
Review: This books covers all aspects of networking with Java in detail. Extremely useful as a day to day reference.
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Summary: One of the best networking java books
Review: This is a very well written book on Java networking, looking at it from all different angles. If you want to get on the fast track to writing network applications this is the book to buy. One word of caution, this new version contains the complete previous version of the book (the one with the ugly fish on the cover). People who have this previous book may not find the update worth its price tag.
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