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On Monday 09 December 2002 11:30, Miles Sabin wrote: > Alaric B. Snell wrote, > > > On Monday 09 December 2002 04:27, Paul Prescod wrote: > > > Actually, you can't do significant development with TCP/IP without > > > understanding how IP addresses and NAT work. > > > > Yeah you can! Particularly with the java.net APIs; you wrap your > > hostname in an InetAddress object and then pass it to a socket > > without really needing to know that it's been resolved to an IP > > address underneath. > > Respectfully, I have to disagree. For _significant_ development with > TCP/IP (ie. anything moderately robust and non-trivial), the java.net > APIs are woefully inadequate ... hence the (now not so) new java.nio.* > APIs. Ok, we're disagreeing on 'significant' - I meant 'useful', in that you can write clients for most standard TCP protocols with java.net having being told what TCP provides without knowing how it works. But I wouldn't write a production-grade Web server with just that, no :-) > > Miles > ABS -- A city is like a large, complex, rabbit - ARP
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