6.6 Sockets.DatagramSocket

Defined in namespace Sockets

Superclass: Sockets.AbstractSocket

Category: Sockets-Streams

This class models a connectionless datagram socket that sends individual packets of data across the network. In the TCP/IP world, this means UDP. Datagram packets do not have guaranteed delivery, or any guarantee about the order the data will be received on the remote host.

This class uses an underlying socket implementation object which is a subclass of DatagramSocketImpl. This is less necessary for datagram sockets than for stream sockets (except for hiding some methods in FileDescriptor that are not relevant to sockets), but it is done for cleanliness and symmetry.

• Sockets.DatagramSocket class-accessing: (class)
• Sockets.DatagramSocket class-initialization: (class)
• Sockets.DatagramSocket class-instance creation: (class)
• Sockets.DatagramSocket-accessing: (instance)
• Sockets.DatagramSocket-direct operations: (instance)