Message based communication using sockets.

By dave on February 6, 2016

Using sockets for client / server development Following on from Using sockets for a character based stream we now introduce the idea of messaging. When we need to send commands between two systems (often referred to as client and server) we normally use message based communication, this was briefly discussed in the data communications introduction. For this example we will use Java, it’s freely available and there are many good IDEs.

Using sockets for a character based stream

By dave on February 5, 2016

Following on from the article Introduction to data communications we will now go into more depth, by looking at an example of stream based communication. We will use sockets for the example; mainly because sockets are available out of the box on any computer connected to the internet. A socket is a stream based connection between a server and a client. Recall from the prior page this means that data is received in the order it was sent.

Data communications by example for developers

By dave on January 20, 2016

In this section I discuss communication protocols; we start with a grounding on the basics and move through to some worked examples. To start with let’s look at some of the simplest cases and understand how communications between computer systems work in practise. There are many methods of communicating between two computers, be they embedded, mobile, desktop or server. Protocols range from the low level SPI and I2C right through to stream based approaches such as sockets over a network.

Filtered extraction from zip file using ZipInputStream and Java 8

By dave on May 16, 2015

In the example below we build on the Reading a zip file from java using ZipInputStream page to provide basic filtering. This filtering is provided by the filteredExpandZipFile method taking a Predicate. Every ZipEntry is passed to the predicate, but only ones that match (predicate returns true) are included. Note that the size of an entry cannot be accurately determined in all cases, so it is not safe to perform validation on the this field.

Writing a zip file in java using ZipOutputStream.

By dave on April 27, 2015

Following on from one of our popular articles on Reading a zip file from java using ZipInputStream we’ve put together a new article on how to create a zip archive using Java. The below example uses ZipOutputStream to create a zip file from all the items in a directory. Zip files are written slightly differently to a normal stream in that each entry is put into the stream one at a time.

Using Java"s XMLStreamReader PULL XML Parser

By dave on February 17, 2014

In this entry I show how to use the inbuilt Java XMLStreamReader PULL parser class to read an XML file. The XML stream libraries are PULL based XML parsers that do not load the whole document into a memory structure, so therefore are more suited to large volumes of XML. Below is an example XML file for a zoo, it contains Animal data types that have both attributes and data. It is kept simple for the sake of example.

NIO File operations in Java 7

By dave on October 23, 2013

Hot on the heals of the last article, interested in what other goodies may be in the new file IO package, and wanting to try the new catch block, I cooked up another example. In this example, I create a Path object for an example directory, into which I then create a file and write some text into the file. Some things of note here: We do not need to concern ourselves with closing the writer objects as they are opened in the new auto-close section.

Watching files in Java 7 with WatchService

By dave on October 23, 2013

In this article I show how to watch files and directories for additions/changes/deletions using the new file system support in Java 7. Finally, after years of native solutions, it is now possible to listen for file changes without resorting to OS specific solutions. In the code below, first we use the new file system support class Paths to get a Path object that represents our particular directory. We then create a watching service, that we will use to listen for changes and finally we register our path (directory) with the watcher for files that are created.

Generate an ATOM feed with GroovyBuilder

By dave on July 1, 2012

Lastly, we look at building an ATOM document using the same principles. ATOM provides a means for site owners to provide updates to site users. It works by providing an XML document showing recent changes to the site. Browsers that support RSS and RSS readers can then highlight these changes to users. An atom formatted document contains two main sections, the header which describes the feed, and then a list of elements, that describe the content.

Reading a GZIP file using Java

By dave on July 1, 2012

Another common compression file format on Linux is the GZIP format. Java again has out of the box support for this file format. Gzip files differ from zip files in that they only contain one file, the compressed form of the original file with a .gz extension. Java’s GZipInputStream takes such a file type and decompresses it. We can treat GZipInputStream directly like a FileInputStream. Here is an example that expands such a file to disk

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