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Re: JDK Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Brown)
Mon Sep 18 02:57:09 1995
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 18:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <199509180044.RAA26866@seagull.rtd.com> from "Rawn Shah" at Sep 17, 95 05:44:23 pm
From: phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown)
>
> :
> : 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).
Yes, I know that.
However, that doesn't stop the need to have a standard way of utilizing
sockets for java.
> 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.
I haven't gotten all the etails on NetworkClient, and its server counterpart.
However, they sound like what 99.999% of most folks need. Therefore, they
should be provided to everyone as a standard now, with extensions in the
future, as the need comes up.
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