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Java API Documentation
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Java Packages
Java interfaces and classes are grouped into packages. The following
lists the java packages, from which you can access interfaces and classes.
- java.lang
- Package that contains essential Java classes, including numerics, strings,
objects, compiler, runtime, security and threads. Unlike other packages,
java.lang is automatically imported into every Java program.
- java.io
- Package that provides a set of input and output streams to read and write
data to files, strings, and other sources.
- java.util
- Package containing miscellaneous utility classes, including generic data
structures, settable bits class, time, date, string manipulation, random
number generation, system properties, notification, and enumeration of data
structures.
- java.net
- Package for network support, including URLs, TCP sockets, UDP sockets, IP
addresses and a binary-to-text converter.
- java.awt
- Package that provides user interface features such as windows, dialog
boxes, buttons, checkboxes, lists, menus, scrollbars and text fields.
(Abstract Window Toolkit)
- java.awt.image
- Package for managing image data, such as the setting the color model,
cropping, color filtering, setting pixel values and grabbing snapshots.
- java.awt.peer
- Package that connects AWT components to their platform-specific
implementation (such as Motif widgets or Microsoft Windows controls).
- java.applet
- Package that enables construction of applets. It also provides information
about an applet's parent document, about other applets in that document, and
enables an applet to play audio.
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