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Sockets and Network Programming in Java

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Server is an application that runs on the host computer that provides a means of connection and useful information once a connection is established. Client is an application(s) running on different computer(s) that seek to establish a connection and request computation/ information from the server.

What is a Socket?
A socket is a communication end point. It is used by a process to communicate with a remote system via a transport protocol. It needs an IP address and a port number. Sockets are popularly used in client/server computing. Socket is a door between application process and end-to-end-transport protocol. A socket on one computer can “talk” to a socket on another computer via communication channel. Two main types of sockets supported in Java  more...

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