Chapter 8
Exploring the Basic APIs Part 2
The standard class library’s java.lang package provides many basic APIs, which are designed to support language features. You encountered APIs for mathematics, string management, and packages in the previous chapter. In this chapter I introduce you to those basic library APIs that pertain to the primitive type wrapper classes, threads, and system capabilities.
Exploring the Primitive Type Wrapper Classes
The java.lang package includes Boolean, Byte, Character, Double, Float, Integer, Long, and Short. These classes are known as primitive type wrapper classes because their instances wrap themselves around values of primitive types.
Note The primitive type wrapper classes are also known as value classes ...
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