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Foil 125 Networking, Web Access and I/O in Java

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 This area will evolve rapidly as existing I/O systems get linked to Java with special classes such as those needed to link MPI (HPCC Message Passing) or Nexus (Well known distributed memory thread package)
2 One can establish Web Connection with URL class and access documents there
3 One can set up a more general URLConnection for more general input/output operations through Web(HTTP) protocol
4 One can set up a Socket link which is permanent rather than on again off again Web client-server interaction
5 One can send messages and so transfer information between different Applets
6 One can (outside Netscape) access same functionality as usual UNIX stdio library

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