Chapter 9
Discovering Additional Utility APIs
Chapter 9 continues to explore Java's utility APIs by introducing APIs that help you work with threads in an easier way, internationalize your applications to reach a wider audience, save configuration preferences in persistent storage, obtain random numbers in a more flexible manner, and quickly search and parse strings.
NOTE: Chapter 9 explores utility API classes and interfaces that are located in the java.text
and java.util
packages, and java.util
's concurrent
, prefs
, and regex
subpackages.
Concurrency Utilities
Java version 5 introduced the concurrency utilities, classes and interfaces that simplify the development of concurrent (multithreaded) applications. These types are located in the ...
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