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API Specification

• java.net Package
• javax.net Package
• javax.net.ssl Package
• com.sun.net.httpserver Package
• com.sun.net.httpserver.spi Package
• jdk.net Package

API Enhancements

• Features and Enhancements in version 8
• Features and Enhancements in version 7
• Features and Enhancements in version 6
• Features and Enhancements in version 5.0
• New Features and Enhancements in version 1.4
• Networking Release Notes for version 1.4.2
• New Features and Enhancementsin version 1.3

Tutorials and Programmer's Guides

• Networking Overview
  Overview of networking facilities injava.net,including Addressing, Making TCP Connections, Sending/ReceivingDatagram Packets via UDP, Locating/Identifying Network Resources,and Security.
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• HTTP client API. The following articles describe features ofthe HTTP client API. (Seejava.net.HttpURLConnectionfor an overview).
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  • URLConnection Caching API
    Detailed overview, with code samples, of the new cache managementAPI.
  • Cookie Management
    Overview of how to deal with cookies, often used as an HTTP statemanagement mechanism, in Java SE 5.0.
  • Http authentication
    Overview of how to use HTTP authentication, which schemes andprotocols are supported, and the system properties that affect itsbehavior.
  • Persistent Connections
    Overview of the HTTP persistent connections (aka keep alivemechanisms), and the means to control them.
  
  
• Java Networking and Proxies
  In depth exploration, with code samples, of proxy management Javanetworking APIs including the newly introduced ProxySelectormechanism.
• IPv6 Support
  IPv6 support, including special IPv6 address types and dual-stacknode.
  
• Networking Properties
  Descriptions of properties used by networking.
  
• Orderly VersusAbortive Connection Release in Java
  How to ensure orderly or graceful release of TCP connections inNetworking applications.
  
• Extendable Socket andServerSocket
  The design, rationale, and how to do it.
  
• Socket Options
  Support for popular BSD-style options in the java baseclasses.
  
• Socket Exceptions
  Subclasses of SocketException for finer granularity of handlingnetwork errors.
  
• Sockets Direct Protocol, a trail inThe Java Tutorials.