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In "Read and write data with Java's I/O streams," we started to explore the input/output (I/O) classes, interfaces, and operations provided by the Java platform. Now, we'll continue our exploration of ...

One of the strong points of Java is that the language has networking capabilities built in. This section will briefly highlight some of the capabilities that are most relevant to the hardware projects ...

The two most common transport layer protocols are the transmission control protocol (TCP) and the user datagram protocol (UDP). One of the main differences between the two protocols is reliability.