Let briefly go over all of the packages in jNetPcap SDK and what they contain:
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+-> jnetcap - this is the main libpcap wrapper package. It contains
+ all of the API for accessing libpcap functionality.
| These classes and methods do very little of their own
| logic and simply pass your requests over to native
| libpcap which handles those the requested actions.
|
+-> winpcap - extension to libpcap wrapper that provides WinPcap
| functions. This is operating system dependent package
| and you must use WinPcap.isSupported() call before
| using any classes and methods in this package.
|
+-> nio - native IO and memory classes. This package defines
| memory management classes that allocate native memory,
| peer native structures and functions to java classes.
| This is also where the very important JBuffer class resides.
|
+-> util - various utility classes. This is where you will find
| logging helpers, JConfig class which manages configurations
| through property files and address resolvers.
|
+-> packet - packet decoding framework. This package defines important
| components of the decoder. JScanner, PcapPacket, and the very
| important baseclass JHeader. JScanner decodes packets
| and stores the packet state information in native structures.
| PcapPacket class reads this state information and can
| peer (or reference via native memory) header objects.
| All header classes subclass JHeader class.
|
+-> header - a library of supported CORE protocol headers.
| This is where you will find Ip4, Tcp, Udp, Ethernet
| and a host of other header definitions, ready for you
| to use.
|
+-> format - packet formatters. They dump the decoded packet
| content in textual form. You can use TextFormatter or XmlFormatter.
|
+-> structure - this package is utilized by protocol builders.
| It contains building blocks of decoded packet that
| formatters use. This is a package you will not normally
| have to deal with.
|
+-> annotate - annotation interfaces used in writting protocol headers.
Unless you are writting a new protocol header definiton
you will not need access any of these annotations.