Chapter 7
Exploring the Basic APIs Part 2
Chapter 7 continues to explore Java's basic (language-oriented) APIs by introducing APIs that let you use reflection to obtain type information at runtime and more, manage strings, perform system activities (such as retrieving a system property value and obtaining the current time), and use threads to improve application performance.
NOTE: Chapter 7 explores basic API classes and interfaces that are located in the java.lang and java.lang.reflect packages.
Reflection API
Chapter 3 referred to reflection as a third form of runtime type identification (RTTI). Java's Reflection API lets applications learn about loaded classes, interfaces, enums (a kind of class), and annotation types (a kind of interface). ...
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