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ABSTRACT
This
article is about a client/server multi-threaded socket class. The thread is
optional since the developer is still responsible to decide if needs it.
There are other Socket classes here and other
places over the Internet but none of them can provide feedback (event
detection) to your application like this one does.
It provides you with the following events
detection: connection established, connection dropped, connection failed and
data reception (including 0 byte packet).
DESCRIPTION
This article
presents a new socket class which supports both TCP and UDP communication. But
it provides some advantages compared to other classes that you may find here or
on some other Socket Programming articles. First of all, this class doesn't
have any limitation like the need to provide a window handle to be used. This
limitation is bad if all you want is a simple console application.
So
this library doesn't have such a limitation. It also provides threading support
automatically for you, which handles the socket connection and disconnection to
a peer. It also features some options not yet found in any socket classes that
I have seen so far.
It supports both client and server sockets. A
server socket can be referred as to a socket that can accept many connections.
And a client socket is a socket that is connected to server socket.
You
may still use this class to communicate between two applications without
establishing a connection. In the latter case, you will want to create two UDP
server sockets (one for each application).
This
class also helps reduce coding need to create chat-like applications and IPC
(Inter-Process Communication) between two or more applications (processes).
Reliable communication between two peers is also supported with TCP/IP with
error handling.
You
may want to use the smart addressing operation to control the destination of
the data being transmitted (UDP only). TCP operation of this class deals only
with communication between two peers.
System Specifications
Hardware Specification
• Monitor : 14” color
• Mother Board : Intel
810E chip set
• Processor : Pentium Celeron
• Processor Speed : 850
MHZ
• Memory Size : 128MB
• Hard Disk Drive : 40GB
• CD Drive : 52
X
• Floppy Drive
: 1.44 Floppy Drive
• Keyboard : 104 keys
• Mouse : Scroll Mouse
• Display
Card : VGA
Software Specification
•
Operating
System : Windows 98/2000/NT
•
Front
End : JAVA 2.0
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