Networking Enhancements

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Trail: JDK(TM) 1.1 -- And Beyond!
Lesson: What's New in 1.1?

Networking Enhancements

The JDK 1.1 release made several enhancements to the networking package, java.net: Support was added for selected BSD-style socket options; Socket and ServerSocket are now non-final, extendable classes; new subclasses of SocketException have been added for finer granularity in reporting and handling network errors; and support was added for multicasting.
The JDK 1.1 release also includes general performance improvements and bug fixes.

Where to Find Documentation

To find a list of the new classes and interfaces added to java.net to support these enhancements, refer to Additions to java.net and to find a list of the APIs deprecated in java.net see The java.net.Socket Class .
The Networking Enhancements page provides some descriptive material about the changes to java.net.

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