COR JESU COLLEGE
COLLEGE OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
Sacred Heart Ave., Digos City, Davao del Sur, Philippines
LABORATORY WORKSHEET 15
TOPIC: Network Socket Programming
Outcomes:
1. Student be able to develop application that implements network socket.
Introduction:
A network socket is a software structure within a network node of a computer
network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the
network. Socket programming is a means of communicating data between
two computers across a network.
In this module, implementation of network socket to real world application
shall be explored.
Steps / Procedures:
Given the following code for programming network socket:
The following code is for ClientSocket
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Client
{
// initialize socket and input output streams
private Socket socket = null;
private DataInputStream input = null;
private DataOutputStream out = null;
// constructor to put ip address and port
public Client(String address, int port)
{
// establish a connection
try
{
socket = new Socket(address, port);
System.out.println("Connected");
// takes input from terminal
input = new DataInputStream(System.in);
// sends output to the socket
out = new DataOutputStream(
socket.getOutputStream());
}
catch(UnknownHostException u)
{
System.out.println(u);
}
catch(IOException i)
{
System.out.println(i);
}
// string to read message from input
String line = "";
// keep reading until "Over" is input
while (!line.equals("Over"))
{
try
{
line = input.readLine();
out.writeUTF(line);
}
catch(IOException i)
{
System.out.println(i);
}
}
// close the connection
try
{
input.close();
out.close();
socket.close();
}
catch(IOException i)
{
System.out.println(i);
}
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
Client client = new Client("127.0.0.1", 5000);
}
}
The following is for ServerSocket:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Server
{
//initialize socket and input stream
private Socket socket = null;
private ServerSocket server = null;
private DataInputStream in = null;
// constructor with port
public Server(int port)
{
// starts server and waits for a connection
try
{
server = new ServerSocket(port);
System.out.println("Server started");
System.out.println("
Waiting for a client ...");
socket = server.accept();
System.out.println("Client accepted");
// takes input from the client socket
in = new DataInputStream(
new BufferedInputStream(
socket.getInputStream()));
String line = "";
// reads message until "Over" is sent
while (!line.equals("Over"))
{
try
{
line = in.readUTF();
System.out.println(line);
}
catch(IOException i)
{
System.out.println(i);
}
}
System.out.println("Closing connection");
// close connection
socket.close();
in.close();
}
catch(IOException i)
{
System.out.println(i);
}
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
Server server = new Server(5000);
}
}
You have the following tasks:
1. Think of an application that can communicate in a network.
2. Develop the application and use the learned network socket
programming to make your system communicate in the network.
Performance/Success Indicator:
1. Built a functional application.
2. Enable application to communicate through network socket.
