Question

I hear’d that exist binary communication. I’m beginner in java, I use plain text based which I learn from java.sun.com tutorials for sockets. So I want to know what benefits have binary socketing? Why I should use that? And what resources you can suggest about binary communication?

Answer 1

You would only work directly with binary data over sockets if you had a specific reason to do so – such as extreme performance. If you had such a reason you would know it, and using binary data direct over sockets does not guarantee high performance.

There are many abstractions provided in Java and libraries to facilitate network communication whilst protecting the programmer from the labour intensive and error-prone work at that low level:

• Remote Method Invocation
• Web Services
• UrlConnection
• Object Serialization

are just some examples.