Introduction: [3 LH]
1.1 Network Programing Features and Scope
1.2 Network Programming Language, Tools & Platforms
1.3 Client and Server Applications
1.4 Client server model and software design
Internet Addresses: [4 LH]
2.1 The InetAddress Class: Creating New InetAddress Objects, Getter
2.2 Methods, Address Types, Testing Reachability and Object Methods
2.3 Inet4Address and Inet6Address
2.4 The Network Interface Class: Factory Method & Getter Method
2.5 Some Useful Programs: SpamCheck, Processing Web Server Logfiles
URLs and URls: [5 LH]
3.1 URIS: URLS and Relative URLs
3.2 The URL Class: Creating New URLs, Retrieving Data From a URL, Splitting a URL into Pieces, Equality & Comparison and Conversion
3.3 The URI Class: Constructing a URI, The Parts of the URI, Resolving Relative URs, Equality & Comparison and String Representation
3.4 x-www-form-urlencoded: URL Encoder and URL Decoder
3.5 Proxies: System Properties, The ProxyClass and The ProxySelector Class
3.6 Communicating with Server-Side Programs Through GET
3.7 Accessing Password-Protected Sites: The Authenticator Class, The PasswordAuthentication Class and The JPassword Field Class
HTTP: [2 LH]
4.1 The protocol: Keep-Alive
4.2 HTTP Methods
4.3 The Request Body
4.4 Cookies: CookielManager and CookiesStore
URLConnections: [5 LH]
5.1 Openning URLConnections
5.2 Reading Data from Server
5.3 Reading Header: Retrieving specific Header Fields and Retrieving Arbitrary Header Fields
5.4 Cache: Web Cache for Java
S.5 Contiguring the Connection: protected URL url, protected boolean connected, protected boolean allowUserInteraction, protected boolean doInput, protected boolean doOutput, protected boolean ifModificationSince, protected boolean useCaches and Timeouts
5.6 Configuring the Client Request HTTP Header
5.7 Security Considerations for URLConnections
5.8 Guessing MIME Media Types
5.9 HttpURLConnection: The Request Methods, Disconnecting from the Server, Handling Server Responses, Proxies and Streaming Mode
Socket for Clients: [5 LH]
6.I Introduction to Socket
6.2 Using Sockets: Investigating Protocols with telnet, Reading from Servers with Sockets, Writing to Servers with Sockets
6.3 Constructing and connecting Sockets: Basic Constructors, Picking a Local Intertace to Connect From, Constructing Without Connecting, Socket Addresses and Proxy Servers
6.4 Getting Information about a Socket: Closed or Connected?, to String)
6.5 Setting Socket Options: TCP_NODELAY, SO_LINGER, So_TIMEOUT, SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF, S0_KEEPALIVE, OOBINLINE, SO _REUSEADDER and IP_TOS Class of Services
6.6 Socket in GUI Applications: Whois and A Network Client Library
Socket for Servers: [5 LH]
7.1 Using ServerSockets: Serving Binary Data, Multithreaded Servers, Writing to Servers with Sockets and Closing Server Sockets
7.2 Logging: What to Log and How to Log
7.3 Constructing Server Sockets: Constructing Without Binding
7.4 Getting Information about Server Socket
7.5 Socket Options: SO_TIMEOUT, SO_RSUMEADDR, SO_RCVBUF and Class of Service
7.6 HTTP Servers: A Single File Server, A Redirector and A Full-Fledged HTTP Server
Secure Socket: [4 LH]
8.1 Secure Communication
8.2 Creating Secure Client Sockets
8.3 Event Handlers
8.4 Session Management
8.5 Client Mode
8.6 Creating Secure Server Socket
8.7 Configure SSLServerSockets: Choosing the Cipher Suits, Session Management and Client Mode
Nonblocking I/0: [3 LH]
9.1 An Example Client and Server
9.2 Buffers: Creating Buffers, Filling and Draining, Bulk Methods, Data Conversion, View Buffers, Compacting Buffers, Duplicating Buffers, Slicing Buffers, Marking and Resetting, Object Methods
9.3 Channels: SocketChannel, ServerSocketChannel, The Channels Class, Asynchronous Channels, Socket Options
9.4 Readiness Selection: The Selector Class, The SelectionKey Class
UDP: [5 LH]
10.1 UDP Protocol
10.2 UDP Clients
10.3 UDP Servers
10.4 The DatagramPacket Class: The Constructor, The get Methods, The setter Methods
10.5 The DatagramSocket Class: The Constructor, Sending and Receiving Datagrams, Managing Connections
10.6 Socket Options: SO_TIMEOUT, SORCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF, SO_RSUMEADDR, SO _BROADCAST and IP_TOS
10.7 UDP Applications: Simple UDP Clients, UDPServer and A UDP Echo Client
10.8 DatagramChannel: Using DatagramChannel
IP Multicast: [2 LH]
11.1 Multicasting: Multicast Address and Groups, Clients and Servers, Routers and Routing
11.2 Working with Multicast Sockets: The Constructor, Communicating with a Group
Remote Method Invocation (RMI): [2 LH]
12.1 Defining and lmplementing RMI Service Intertace
12.2 Creating an RMI Server and Client
12.3 Running the RMI System
Laboratory work should be done covering all the topics listed above anda small project work should be caried out using the concept learnt in this course using Java programming Language.