April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
The lib directory houses class libraries that are needed by one or more of the development tools in the bin directory. Here is a list of files in a typical Java 8 lib directory:

Reviewing the directory listing does not provide a great level of granular insight. We can list the classes contained in any of the .jar files with the following command--jar tvf fileName.jar. As an example, here is the class listing generated from executing jar tvf javafx-mx.jar at the command line:
