[1874] in java-interest
Re: JDK Question (Socket support)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert O'Callahan)
Tue Sep 19 03:10:25 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:24:48 -0400
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: "Robert O'Callahan" <roc+@cs.cmu.edu>
phil@bolthole.com (Philip Brown) wrote the following message and no-one
seems to have contradicted him yet:
>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.
>
>They should have left the net stuff in net.*, actually.
>
>If sun+netscape chooses not to have the net.* classes in the common
>"mandatory" standard for java, fine.
>But THEY SHOULD STILL BE IN net.* !!!
Uh, the JDK has socket support in the java.net package, which (presumably)
is part of the "mandatory" class set.
The NetworkClient class isn't there, but it doesn't do anything you can't do
with Socket.
Rob
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