Advanced Java Networking, Second Edition--an excellent introduction to sockets, RMI, IDL/CORBA, JDBC, and other APIs--surveys all the ways to create state-of-the-art server-side solutions with Java. If you're a developer or architect, this book can help you build scalable Internet solutions.
Advanced Java is notable in at least two ways. First and foremost, it presents each Java networking API with real intelligence and enthusiasm. The authors of the second edition (who have revised the book thoroughly) prove they have considerable teaching experience by including plenty of interesting examples. The same application (for a simple appointment-scheduling program) is used throughout the text. You learn how to use sockets, RMI, IDL/CORBA, and even servlets and JSPs to build different versions of the same application. This comparative approach gives you a sense of the strengths of each API. (A final chapter here outlines when to use each API, depending on your design needs.)
Besides hands-on coding examples, several chapters present a high-level introduction to new Java APIs like JINI, naming services, and JNDI, plus EJBs and network management with JMAP. Generally, this book strikes a good balance between explaining the underlying technology behind each Java API, and providing basic sample code to help get you started. While you certainly don't need to use every networking API for every project, this title introduces them all so that you can choose the best approach. The new edition of Advanced Java Networking packages an excellent mix of sample code and technological expertise--of value in choosing the best options for networking on today's Java platform. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Object-oriented design in Java Java I/O routines Threads Object serialization Performance TCP/IP and networking basics Programming Java sockets for TCP and UDP JDBC for databases Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) Callbacks Overview of CORBA Java IDL HTTP basics
CGI vs. servlets Java Server Pages (JSPs) JavaBeans for clients and servers Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) basics Microsoft COM/DCOM components Application servers (performance, database-connection pooling, and scalability issues) JINI basics JMX/JMAP for network management JNDI and directory services Java security issues (including encryption, authentication, and secure sockets) Comparison of strengths Limitations of Java networking APIs
User review
Don't waste money on this book
This is a wateful book. I went through this book to work on an RMI project that i had undertaken. The RMI chapter has examples that are full of errors. The section on CALLBACKS is all wrong and just will not work correctly.
Absolute waste of money if you bought it.
User review
Two thumbs-up,,.
a very good starting introduction to a varity of advanced subjects. The book uses the very useful method of developing one example through the book with different ways.
I highly recommend this book.
User review
Dont buy this book
The examples are full of errors for starts,,.most of them are simple syntax errors, and that in itself does not warrent a terrible review. My real problem with the book is the authors do not know what they are talking about. The chapter on Java Beans is wrong. Not like the code doen't work wrong, but what they describe as a Java Bean is not a Java Bean, but a type of Java Beans. This is only one example. Also the book has an annoying habit of putting many examples in AWT and Swing. This might just be me, but I could really care less. I don't know how to make applets, and don't want to, I want to know how to make a networked application independant of the UI.
Finally the authors insane predictions of the future of the Java Language are both annoying, and shows their misunderstanding of the Java Language.
User review
After 9 months, I'm still thumbing through this book,,.
I bought this book about 9 months ago to help me do the Java 2 Developer Certification. It provides an excellent reference to help you write programs using almost any networking technology. I still refer to it when I need to write any sort of networking program. Buy this book, trust me,,. you will never look at any of the networking tutorials on java.sun.com again.
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Too much extranious material
I am a java programmer interested in back end java applications, I found that the use of AWT was annoying, I don't know it, and don't want to know it. If you are familiar with java, or know awt this is a decent book, but unless you are into AWT be prepared to extract any useful information out of the examples.
