[1810] in java-interest
Re: JDK Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rawn Shah)
Mon Sep 18 01:55:15 1995
From: Rawn Shah <rawn@rtd.com>
To: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 17:44:23 -0700 (MST)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <199509151924.TAA25998@shellx.best.com> from "Philip Brown" at Sep 15, 95 12:24:39 pm
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: I think tcp/ip networking is rather platform independant.
: To say someone will only want to use network functionality if they are
: running on a sun, is silly.
That's a very naive viewpoint of how networking actually exists in the world.
TCP/IP has several different programming API standards: Berkeley Sockets,
SVR4 TLI, XTI, Windows Sockets, MacTCP (if you can actually call it that).
None are all encompassing and none are a complete superset of all others.
That's why the standards process is continous.
The Java classes NetworkClient, etc. are an even more generalized
viewpoint of network communications. It would take far too long to create
yet another universal API set for networking.
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