Review by Billy Barron

"Java Network Programming" by Harold (O'Reilly; ISBN 1-56592-227-1) fills a niche in the Java book market. Personally, I've been waiting for Stevens to take his "UNIX Network Programming" book and port it to Java. Since that hasn't happened, I look at this new book with interest.

It does a good job of covering all the network basics and all the networking features of Java. It even includes current topics such as RMI and the Server API. I'd recommend this book to anyone who has never done network programming before and is trying to.