June 2013
Beginner
1007 pages
33h 32m
English
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Chapter 10. Working with Text
If you’ve been reading this book sequentially, you’ve read all about the core Java language constructs, including the object-oriented aspects of the language and the use of threads. Now it’s time to shift gears and start talking about the Java Application Programming Interface (API), the collection of classes that compose the standard Java packages and come with every Java implementation. Java’s core packages are one of its most distinguishing features. Many other object-oriented languages have similar features, but none has as extensive a set of standardized APIs and tools as Java does. This is both a reflection of and a reason for Java’s success. Table 10-1 lists some of the important packages in the API and their corresponding chapters in this book.
Table 10-1. Java API packages
Package | Contents | Chapter |
|---|---|---|
| Basic language classes | 4–9 |
| Reflection | 7 |
| Thread utilities | 9 |
| International text classes and regular expressions | 10 |
| Utilities and collections classes | 10–12 |
| Input and output Input and output | 12 12 |
| Networking and Remote Method Invocation classes | 13–14 |
| Remote Method Invocation classes | 13 |
| Web applications | 15 |
| Swing GUI and 2D graphics | 16–20 |
| Images, sound, and video | 21 |
| JavaBeans API | 22 |
| The Applet API | 23 |
| The XML API | 24 |
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