What is the difference between a Socket object and a URLConn

What is the difference between a Socket object and a URLConnection object? How are they used differently, and how are they similar?

Solution

similarities between socket objects and URL conncetion objecct

1)both are used for communication purposes

2)both can read and write the data

differences

URLConnection

1)here communication happens between URL(UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR ) and the object .

2the methods of URLConnection class forms the object of URLConnection class

sockets:

1)Here the methods are of socket type

2)The socket is bound to an address and listenins for connections