Java Sockets in the IO and NIO packages

When: Tuesday, May 13th 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Where: John Deere Credit, Johnston IA

The Java 1.4 NIO package includes many features missing from previous editions of Java that are critical to writing high-performance, large-scale applications: improvements in buffer management, scalable network and file I/O, character-set support, and regular expression matching.

Our next meeting will feature a presentation by Gervase Gallant on Sockets programming using the IO and NIO packages. Gervase has written a number of applications using Java sockets in the older IO packages and this presentation shows how to port them to the NIO package.

For those new to Sockets programming, the presentation will also cover:

• Sockets Basics
• Simple socket application you can use every day.
• Developing an HTTP Server which exposes a directory structure.
• Porting the server to take advantage of Channels and ByteBuffers

For more information on NIO and sockets, take a look at John Zukowski's New I/0 Functionality for JavaTM 2 Standard Edition 1.4