The java.net package contains classes that deal with connections across the network. If there is a direct connection to the Internet via a modem, various classes like the HttpConnection or the raw Connection class can be used to get a connection to a server on the net.
This approach fails if you are going through a proxy server. To tell the JVM a proxy is installed, system variables need to be set explicitly set using the System class.
What you have to do is basically set three variables. These are:
proxySet proxyPort proxyHost
This small piece of code shows how to set a proxy before calling the connecting code:
//some previous code System.getProperties().put(
