The net library's Socket Adapter is an object-oriented interface to the Berkeley sockets API. The adapter uses the same concepts and names used by Berkeley sockets-socket, bind, connect, socket address, and so on-but provides a type safe, fully object-oriented interface. Reusing the existing concepts preserves all the underlying sockets functionality, since sockets fit as easily into the net library API as into the procedural API. Because the Berkeley sockets concepts and names have been reused, users with socket experience can easily master the Socket Adapter.
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