Prashant Mishra said
Don't go by the pages of the book. Its coverage is pretty good(including NIO). It won't make you a guru in the subject, but lay a solid foundation if you aspire to be ! Buy it, you won't regret.
H. Eck said
a very nice, intro level book. it starts at the very beginning, but doesn't waste a lot of time; provides the reader with some simple working examples, well explained; and points the way to more sophisticated stuff. perfect.
E. Krinker said
Practical Guide Series did it again. They put together very consice reference on useful working examples in java. I needed to program quick and dirty program for my class using TCP/IP protocol, and the examples in the book really helped. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that the book's site was down the whole day and I could not access any of the code, so I had to type it all out. Otherwise it would be 5 stars.
David N. Thielen said
I will agree with the other reviewers that this is a really well written book.
However, it does not cover using the NIO (java 1.4) networking API which is much faster and more efficient. So this book is very useful if you are still having to write for java 1.3.
But if you are writing for java 1.4 (or 1.5), then it is of almost no value.
Anonymous said
I very much agree with the other reviews on this site. This book hits the meat of using TCP/IP with Java. Some prerequisites for this book are the following topics. I recommend that you get a single book for each topic.
* Basic Java Programming including I/O and Threads
* The TCP/IP protocol suite and TCP/IP networking
* Cryptography (recommended)
* Java Security (recommended)
You will need additional books if you want to hit topics such as these: Java's application-level networking API's, Servlets, JSP, RMI, CORBA. I also recommend this book because it lists references to 22 such supplemental books/documents.
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