Network Programming

Unit 1: Introduction (3 hrs) 1.1 Network Programing Features and Scope 1.2 Network Programming Language, Tools & Platforms 1.3 Client and Server Applications 1.4 Client server model and software design Unit 2: Internet Addresses (2 hrs) 2.1 The InetAddress Class: Creating New InetAddress Objects, Getter 2.2 Methods, Address Types, Testing Reachability and Object Methods 2.3 Inet4Address and lnet6Address 2.4 The Network Interface Class: Factory Method & Getter Method 2.5 Some Useful Programs: SpamCheck, Processing Web Server Logfiles Unit 3: URLs and URIs (5 hrs) 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 Unit 4: HTTP (2 hrs) 4.1 The protocol: Keep-Alive 4.2 HTTP Methods 4.3 The Request Body 4.4 Cookies: CookieManager and CookiesStore Unit 5: URL Connections (5 hrs) 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 dolnput, 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 Unit 6: Socket for Clients (5 hrs) 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: Who is and A Network Client Library Unit 7: Socket for Servers (5 hrs) 7.1 Using Server Sockets: Serving Binary Data, Multithreaded Servers, Writing to Servers with Sockets and Closing Server Sockets 7.2 Logging: What to Log and How to Log 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 Unit 8: Secure Socket (4 hrs) 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 SSL Server Sockets: Choosing the Cipher Suits, Session Management and Client Mode Unit 9: Nonblocking I/O (3 hrs) 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: Socket Channel, Server Socket Channel, The Channels Class, Asynchronous Channels, Socket Options 9.4 Readiness Selection: The Selector Class, The Selection Key Class Unit 10: UDP (5 hrs) 10.1 UDP Protocol 10.2 UDP Clients 10.3 UDP Servers 10.4 The Datagram Packet Class: The Constructor, The get Methods, The setter Methods 10.5 The Datagram Socket 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, UDP Server and A UDP Echo Client 10.8 Datagram Channel: Using Datagram Channel Unit 11: IP Multicast (2 hrs) 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 Unit 12: Remote Method Invocation (2 hrs) 12.1 Defining and Implementing RMI Service Interface 12.2 Creating an RMI Server and Client 12.3 Running the RM1 System