North South University

CSE 438L: Data

Communication & Network Lab
Lab Class 4: Introduction to Socket Programing

Socket Programing
Networking is tightly integrated in Java. Java API provides the classes for creating sockets to facilitate
program communications over the Internet. Sockets are the endpoints of logical connections between
two hosts and can be used to send and receive data. Java treats socket communications much as it
treats I/O operations; thus programs can read from or write to sockets as easily as they can read from or
write to files. Java supports both TCP and UDP for communication.

To establish a server, you need to create a server socket and attach it to a port, which is where
the server listens for connections.

Note:
When you create a server socket, you have to specify a port (e.g., 8000) for the socket. When a
client connects to the server (line 43 in Client.java), a socket is created on the client. This socket
has its own local port. This port number (e.g., 2047) is automatically chosen by the JVM.

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Exercise 1: Create a simple Server
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Server1 {

private static ServerSocket server = null; private static

Socket socket = null; private static final int port =
8080;

public static void main(String[] args) {

//Create IO Objects
BufferedReader in = null;
PrintWriter out = null;
Scanner consoleInput = new Scanner(System.in);

//Start Server
try {
System.out.println("Server is starting ...");
server = new ServerSocket(port);
System.out.println("Server has started");
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Can not listen to port: " + port); System.exit(-1);

}
while(true) {
//Create Socket
try {
socket = server.accept();
System.out.println("Client has been connected\n"); } catch
(IOException e) {
System.out.println("Communication Error with
client");
System.exit(-1);
}

try {
in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
socket.getInputStream()
)
);

out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(),

true);

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 out.println("NSU CSE338 LAB Server");
System.out.println("Client Name: " + in.readLine());

while(socket.isConnected()) {
System.out.print("Server: ");
out.println(consoleInput.nextLine());
System.out.print("Client: ");
System.out.println(in.readLine());
}

} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.print("Client Left");
consoleInput.close();
}
}

Exercise 2: Create a Client

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Client1 {

public static Socket socket = null;

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {
socket = new Socket("localhost", 8080);
System.out.println("Connected to Server\n"
+ "Socket: " + socket.getInetAddress() + ":" +
socket.getPort() + "\n" );
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.print("Connection to network can not be
stablished");
}

BufferedReader in = null;
PrintWriter out = null;
Scanner consoleInput = new Scanner(System.in);

try {

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 in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(
socket.getInputStream() ));
out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);

System.out.println("Server: " + in.readLine());

System.out.print("Client: your name_ ");
out.println(consoleInput.nextLine());

while(true) {
System.out.print("Server: ");
System.out.println(in.readLine());
System.out.print("Client: ");
out.println(consoleInput.nextLine());
}

} catch (IOException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}
}
}

Task:
Perform all three exercises in the class.

Assignment - 1:
Write a socket server program named RockPaperScissorsServer, which communicates with players
(clients). Server firstly receives a name for the player. Let’s assume 1 is Rock, 2 is Paper and 3 is
Scissors. Next Server receives any of the 3 number from the user, generate a random number between 1
to 3 itself and then apply the Rock Paper Scissors game logic (which is paper beats rock, rock beats
scissors, scissors beats paper), Then it will tell the player if the player or server has won. Write another
client program to communicate with the server. *Bonus marks for making the server such a way the any
time any player can leave and another player can join.

Reading References:
1. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/socket-140484.html
2. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/sockets/
3. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/ServerSocket.html