6.2. The APIs
Now that you have considered what might need to be internationalized in a system, you should take a look at the APIs that you can use, and get a feel for what each one does. Although many of the Java 2 platform APIs can provide assistance for an internationalized program, the objectives are quite specific about those that might appear in the exam. For this reason, you consider the following APIs:
Properties, Locale, ResourceBundle, Unicode, java.text package, InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter.
The Properties Class
The Properties class is a simple derivative of the HashTable class. It stores objects, indexed for retrieval by a textual key. You can use instances of the Properties class for your own purposes in a program, but ...
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