Introduction

Overview

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Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate your ability to write client-server applications

• Utilize the ServerSocket, Socket, and Thread classes to write multi-threaded server applications

• Utilize the DataInputStream and DataOutputStream classes to send data between socket-based client and server applications

• Formulate and apply proprietary network application protocols for use in client-server applications

• Utilize Remote Method Invocation (RMI) to create client-server applications

• Utilize the Properties class to store and retrieve application properties

• Utilize the Class.forName() method to dynamically load classes at application runtime

• Utilize the Singleton pattern in an application

• Utilize the Factory Class pattern in an application

• Ensure the proper destruction of objects through the use of a finalize() method