Course Outcomes of Advanced Java Programming AJP

(17625, C603)

C603.1 Design GUI using AWT and Swing .

C603.2 Develop program using event handling.

C603.3 Use network concepts (client/server, socket) in the

program.

C603.4 Develop program using JDBC connectivity to access

data from database and execute different queries to
get required result.
C603.5 Develop web based program using servlet and JSP

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Java Socket Programming
Java Sockets Programming
❑ The package java.net provides support for
sockets programming (and more).

❑ Typically you import everything defined in

this package with:

import java.net.*;

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Classes
InetAddress

Socket

ServerSocket

DatagramSocket

DatagramPacket

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InetAddress class
❑ static methods you can use to create new
InetAddress objects.
❖ getByName(String host)
❖ getAllByName(String host)
❖ getLocalHost()

InetAddress x = InetAddress.getByName(
“cse.unr.edu”);
❖ Throws UnknownHostException

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Sample Code: Lookup.java
❑ Uses InetAddress class to lookup hostnames
found on command line.

> java Lookup cse.unr.edu www.yahoo.com

cse.unr.edu:134.197.40.9
www.yahoo.com:209.131.36.158

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try {

InetAddress a = InetAddress.getByName(hostname);

System.out.println(hostname + ":" +
a.getHostAddress());

} catch (UnknownHostException e) {

System.out.println("No address found for " +

hostname);

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 Socket class
❑ Corresponds to active TCP sockets only!
❖ client sockets
❖ socket returned by accept();

❑ Passive sockets are supported by a different

class:
❖ ServerSocket

❑ UDP sockets are supported by

❖ DatagramSocket

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JAVA TCP Sockets
❑ java.net.Socket
❖ Implements client sockets (also called just “sockets”).
❖ An endpoint for communication between two machines.
❖ Constructor and Methods
• Socket(String host, int port): Creates a stream socket and connects it to the specified port number
on the named host.
• InputStream getInputStream()
• OutputStream getOutputStream()
• close()

❑ java.net.ServerSocket
❖ Implements server sockets.
❖ Waits for requests to come in over the network.
❖ Performs some operation based on the request.
❖ Constructor and Methods
• ServerSocket(int port)
• Socket Accept(): Listens for a connection to be made to this socket and accepts it. This method
blocks until a connection is made.

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Sockets

Client socket, welcoming socket (passive) and connection socket (active)

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Socket Constructors
❑ Constructor creates a TCP connection to a
named TCP server.
❖ There are a number of constructors:

Socket(InetAddress server, int port);

Socket(InetAddress server, int port,

InetAddress local, int localport);

Socket(String hostname, int port);

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 Socket Methods
void close();
InetAddress getInetAddress();
InetAddress getLocalAddress();
InputStream getInputStream();
OutputStream getOutputStream();

❑ Lots more (setting/getting socket options,

partial close, etc.)

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Socket I/O
❑ Socket I/O is based on the Java I/O support
❖ in the package java.io

❑ InputStream and OutputStream are abstract

classes
❖ common operations defined for all kinds of
InputStreams, OutputStreams…

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 InputStream Basics
// reads some number of bytes and
// puts in buffer array b
int read(byte[] b);

// reads up to len bytes

int read(byte[] b, int off, int len);

Both methods can throw IOException.

Both return –1 on EOF.

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OutputStream Basics

// writes b.length bytes

void write(byte[] b);

// writes len bytes starting

// at offset off
void write(byte[] b, int off, int len);

Both methods can throw IOException.

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ServerSocket Class
(TCP Passive Socket)
❑ Constructors:

ServerSocket(int port);

ServerSocket(int port, int backlog);

ServerSocket(int port, int backlog,

InetAddress bindAddr);

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 ServerSocket Methods
Socket accept();

void close();

InetAddress getInetAddress();

int getLocalPort();

throw IOException, SecurityException

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 Socket programming with TCP

Example client-server app:

❑ client reads line from standard
input (inFromUser stream) ,
sends to server via socket Client
Input stream:
(outToServer stream) process sequence of bytes
❑ server reads line from socket output stream: into process
❑ server converts line to sequence of bytes
uppercase, sends back to client out of process
❑ client reads, prints modified
line from socket
(inFromServer stream)
client TCP
socket

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Client/server socket interaction: TCP
Server (running on hostid) Client
create socket,
port=x, for
incoming request:
welcomeSocket =
ServerSocket()

TCP create socket,

wait for incoming
connection request connection setup connect to hostid, port=x
connectionSocket = clientSocket =
welcomeSocket.accept() Socket()

send request using

read request from clientSocket
connectionSocket

write reply to
connectionSocket read reply from
clientSocket
close
connectionSocket close
clientSocket
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 TCPClient.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

class TCPClient {
public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception
{
String sentence;
String modifiedSentence;

BufferedReader inFromUser =
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

Socket clientSocket = new Socket("hostname", 6789);

DataOutputStream outToServer =
new DataOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
TCPClient.java
BufferedReader inFromServer =
new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));

sentence = inFromUser.readLine();

outToServer.writeBytes(sentence + '\n');

modifiedSentence = inFromServer.readLine();

System.out.println("FROM SERVER: " + modifiedSentence);

clientSocket.close();
}
}

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 TCPServer.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
class TCPServer {
public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception
{
String clientSentence;
String capitalizedSentence;

ServerSocket welcomeSocket = new ServerSocket(6789);

while(true) {

Socket connectionSocket = welcomeSocket.accept();

BufferedReader inFromClient = new BufferedReader(new

InputStreamReader(connectionSocket.getInputStream()));
 TCPServer.java

DataOutputStream outToClient =
new DataOutputStream(connectionSocket.getOutputStream());

clientSentence = inFromClient.readLine();

capitalizedSentence = clientSentence.toUpperCase() + '\n';

outToClient.writeBytes(capitalizedSentence);

}
}
}

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Sample Echo Server
TCPEchoServer.java

Simple TCP Echo server.

Based on code from:

TCP/IP Sockets in Java

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UDP Sockets
❑ DatagramSocket class

❑ DatagramPacket class needed to specify the

payload
❖ incoming or outgoing

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Socket Programming with UDP
❑ UDP
❖ Connectionless and unreliable service.
❖ There isn’t an initial handshaking phase.
❖ Doesn’t have a pipe.
❖ transmitted data may be received out of order, or lost

❑ Socket Programming with UDP

❖ No need for a welcoming socket.
❖ No streams are attached to the sockets.
❖ the sending hosts creates “packets” by attaching the IP destination
address and port number to each batch of bytes.
❖ The receiving process must unravel to received packet to obtain the
packet’s information bytes.

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JAVA UDP Sockets
❑ In Package java.net
❖ java.net.DatagramSocket
• A socket for sending and receiving datagram packets.
• Constructor and Methods
– DatagramSocket(int port): Constructs a datagram
socket and binds it to the specified port on the local
host machine.
– void receive( DatagramPacket p)
– void send( DatagramPacket p)
– void close()

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DatagramSocket Constructors
DatagramSocket();

DatagramSocket(int port);

DatagramSocket(int port, InetAddress a);

All can throw SocketException or

SecurityException

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Datagram Methods
void connect(InetAddress, int port);

void close();

void receive(DatagramPacket p);

void send(DatagramPacket p);

Lots more!

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Datagram Packet
❑ Contain the payload
❖ (a byte array

❑ Can also be used to specify the destination

address
❖ when not using connected mode UDP

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DatagramPacket Constructors
For receiving:

DatagramPacket( byte[] buf, int len);

For sending:

DatagramPacket( byte[] buf, int len

InetAddress a, int port);

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DatagramPacket methods
byte[] getData();
void setData(byte[] buf);

void setAddress(InetAddress a);

void setPort(int port);

InetAddress getAddress();
int getPort();

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Example: Java client (UDP)

Client
Input: receives
process
packet (TCP
received “byte
Output: sends
stream”)
packet (TCP sent
“byte stream”)

client UDP
socket

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Client/server socket interaction: UDP
Server (running on hostid) Client

create socket,
port=x, for create socket,
clientSocket =
incoming request: DatagramSocket()
serverSocket =
DatagramSocket()
Create, address (hostid, port=x,
send datagram request
using clientSocket
read request from
serverSocket

write reply to
serverSocket
specifying client read reply from
host address, clientSocket
port umber close
clientSocket

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UDPClient.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
class UDPClient {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
{
BufferedReader inFromUser =
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
DatagramSocket clientSocket = new DatagramSocket();
InetAddress IPAddress =
InetAddress.getByName("hostname");
byte[] sendData = new byte[1024];
byte[] receiveData = new byte[1024];
String sentence = inFromUser.readLine();
sendData = sentence.getBytes();
UDPClient.java
DatagramPacket sendPacket =
new DatagramPacket(sendData, sendData.length,
IPAddress, 9876);
clientSocket.send(sendPacket);
DatagramPacket receivePacket =
new DatagramPacket(receiveData, receiveData.length);
clientSocket.receive(receivePacket);
String modifiedSentence =
new String(receivePacket.getData());
System.out.println("FROM SERVER:" + modifiedSentence);

clientSocket.close();
}
}
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 UDPServer.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

class UDPServer {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
{
DatagramSocket serverSocket = new
DatagramSocket(9876);
byte[] receiveData = new byte[1024];
byte[] sendData = new byte[1024];
while(true)
{
DatagramPacket receivePacket =
new DatagramPacket(receiveData, receiveData.length);
serverSocket.receive(receivePacket);
String sentence = new String(receivePacket.getData());
 UDPServer.java

InetAddress IPAddress = receivePacket.getAddress();

int port = receivePacket.getPort();
String capitalizedSentence = sentence.toUpperCase();
sendData = capitalizedSentence.getBytes();
DatagramPacket sendPacket =
new DatagramPacket(sendData, sendData.length, IPAddress, port);
serverSocket.send(sendPacket);

}
}
}

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Sample UDP code
UDPEchoServer.java

Simple UDP Echo server.

Test using nc as the client (netcat):

> nc –u hostname port

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Socket functional calls
❑ socket (): Create a socket
❑ bind(): bind a socket to a local IP address and port #

❑ listen(): passively waiting for connections

❑ connect(): initiating connection to another socket
❑ accept(): accept a new connection

❑ Write(): write data to a socket

❑ Read(): read data from a socket
❑ sendto(): send a datagram to another UDP socket
❑ recvfrom(): read a datagram from a UDP socket

❑ close(): close a socket (tear down the connection)

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Java URL Class
❑ Represents a Uniform Resource Locator
❖ scheme (protocol)
❖ hostname
❖ port
❖ path
❖ query string

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 Parsing

❑ You can use a URL object as a parser:

URL u = new URL(“http://www.cs.unr.edu/”);

System.out.println(“Proto:” + u.getProtocol());

System.out.println(“File:” + u.getFile());

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 URL construction
❑ You can also build a URL by setting each part individually:

URL u = new URL(“http”,

www.cs.unr.edu,80,”/~mgunes/”);

System.out.println(“URL:” + u.toExternalForm());

System.out.println(“URL: “ + u);

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Retrieving URL contents
❑ URL objects can retrieve the documents they refer
to!
❖ actually this depends on the protocol part of the URL.
❖ HTTP is supported
❖ File is supported (“file://c:\foo.html”)
❖ You can get “Protocol Handlers” for other protocols.

❑ There are a number of ways to do this:

Object getContent();

InputStream openStream();

URLConnection openConnection();

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Getting Header Information
❑ There are methods that return information extracted
from response headers:
String getContentType();
String getContentLength();
long getLastModified();

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URLConnection
❑ Represents the connection (not the URL itself).

❑ More control than URL

❖ can write to the connection (send POST data).
❖ can set request headers.

❑ Closely tied to HTTP

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