Java’s growth over the past 20 years has been nothing short of phenomenal. Given Java’s rapid rise to prominence and the even more spectacular growth of the Internet, it’s a little surprising that network programming in Java remains so mysterious to so many. It doesn’t have to be. In fact, writing network programs in Java is quite simple, as this book will show. Readers with previous experience in network programming in a Unix, Windows, or Macintosh environment will be pleasantly surprised at how much easier it is to write equivalent programs in Java.