I plan on making an instant messaging app on Android and iOS, where you can chat to other people with the app, along with some custom features. I’m going to use the XMPP protocol, and make a custo...

Can anyone tell me how the get the IP address from a connected client? So far I've found session.getRemoteAddress().toString() and returns something like /192.168.1.100:49879 is this ok? ...

I'm implementing an hybrid server application that mixes a Web-Servlet and a plain Java application. The java application manages thousands of sockets for remote devices, while the Web application...

I am trying to figure out how this will work out: client-server communication via NIO/BIO Server-server communication (replication, membership etc) via JGroups (replication of data can be a pain...

I have a application server for network operations written with Java based on Apache Mina. Recently I encounter a strange behavior in my log files. I noticed that the log file is full of @^@^@^@^@^...

I'm trying to build a Java NIO-based socket server using Apache Mina. I really need to know the port of the remote host, not just the IP address, and it seems that Mina only exposes a SocketAddress...