What is the difference between Socket and ServerSocket?

Question

If Socket represents client side and ServerSocket represents server side, why Socket.read reads the data from server side? I\'m really con

Answer 1

java.net.ServerSocket

This class implements server sockets. A server socket waits for requests to come in over the network. It performs some operation based on that request, and then possibly returns a result to the requester.

java.net.Socket

This class implements client sockets (also called just "sockets"). A socket is an endpoint for communication between two machines.