Socket Programming in Java - Socket programming in the real world

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It's time to put theory to practice. The file server to be developed will provide the following services:

1. List the files that can be downloaded.
2. Send the selected file.
3. Process each request in a separate thread.

This example is from the solution to an exercise from Professor David Eck’s on-line textbook, published under an open content license at http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs124/javanotes4/c10/ex-10-4-

 

answer.html.

 

 

There are two classes that form the server:

 

1. FileServer - sets up the server.
2. ConnectionHandler - services the requests for sending files to clients.

Let's look at the implementation. First comes the FileServer class. It does the following tasks:

1. Checks the existence of the directory name specified.
2. Sets up the server.
3. Delegates the requests to be handled to an object of the ConnectionHandler class.

the following is the implementation of the class:

import java.net.*;
  import java.io.*;

  public class FileServer {

    static final int LISTENING_PORT = 3210;

    public static void main(String[] args) {

      File directory; // The directory from which the
                      // gets the files that it serves.
      ServerSocket listener; // Listens for connection
                             // requests.
      Socket connection; // A socket for communicating
                         // with a client.

      /* Check that there is a command-line argument.
      If not, print a usage message and end. */

      if (args.length == 0) {
        System.out.println("Usage: java FileServer <directory>");
        return;
      }

      /* Get the directory name from the command line,
       and make it into a file object. Check that the
       file exists and is in fact a directory. */

      directory = new File(args[0]);
      if ( ! directory.exists() ) {
        System.out.println("Specified directory does not exist.");
        return;
      }
      if (! directory.isDirectory() ) {
        System.out.println("The specified file is not a directory.");
        return;
      }

      /* Listen for connection requests from clients. For
         each connection, create a separate Thread of
         type ConnectionHandler to process it. The
         ConnectionHandler class is defined below. The
         server runs until the program is terminated, for
         example by a CONTROL-C. */

      try {
        listener = new ServerSocket(LISTENING_PORT);
        System.out.println("Listening on port " + LISTENING_PORT);
        while (true) {
          connection = listener.accept();
          new ConnectionHandler(directory,connection);
        }
      }
      catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Server shut down unexpectedly.");
        System.out.println("Error: " + e);
        return;
      }

    } // end main()

     :
     :
  }

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