Networking Features

• Lists the changes and enhancements to Java networking in this release.

Networking Guides

For completeness, this section includes documentation related to changes to the java.net package in the Java 1.1 platform:

• Extendable Socket and ServerSocket
  The design, rationale, and how to do it.
  
• Socket Options
  Support for popular BSD-style options in the java base classes, (and subclasses can define their own)
  
• Socket Exceptions
  Subclasses of SocketException for finer granularity of handling network errors
  
• Miscellaneous
  Important bug fixes, new constructors, new methods, and others

Networking API Reference
(javadoc)

• java.net Package

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