Net Overview

Probably the most fundamental thing to understand about the Net package is that it is intended to provide protocol access, not a higher-level abstraction. In practice, this means that objects tend to have methods that are highly sequential and generally more “procedural” in flavor. The following list indicates the packages of the Net package—you’ll notice that they mostly correspond directly to the supported protocol list mentioned previously.

• examples

• org.apache.commons.net

• org.apache.commons.net.bsd

• org.apache.commons.net.ftp

• org.apache.commons.net.ftp.parser

• org.apache.commons.net.io

• org.apache.commons.net.nntp

• org.apache.commons.net.pop3

• org.apache.commons.net.smtp

• org.apache.commons.net.telnet

• org.apache.commons.net.tftp

• org.apache.commons.net.util