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Reviews : Java Books : Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition :

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Title: Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition
ISBN: 0-596-00283-1, Order Number: 2831
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Java Platform Overview

Table 1-1 summarizes the key packages of the Java platform that are covered in this book.

Table 1-1. Key packages of the Java platform

Package Description
java.beans

The JavaBeans component model for reusable, embeddable software components.

java.beans.beancontext

Additional classes that define bean context objects that hold and provide services to the JavaBeans objects they contain.

java.io

Classes and interfaces for input and output. Although some of the classes in this package are for working directly with files, most are for working with streams of bytes or characters.

java.lang

The core classes of the language, such as String, Math, System, Thread, and Exception.

java.lang.ref

Classes that define weak references to objects. A weak reference is one that does not prevent the referent object from being garbage-collected.

java.lang.reflect

Classes and interfaces that allow Java programs to reflect on themselves by examining the constructors, methods, and fields of classes.

java.math

A small package that contains classes for arbitrary-precision integer and floating-point arithmetic.

java.net

Classes and interfaces for networking with other systems.

java.nio

Buffer classes for the New I/O API.

java.nio.channels

Channel and selector interfaces and classes for high-performance, nonblocking I/O.

java.nio.charset

Character set encoders and decoders for converting Unicode strings to and from bytes.

java.security

Classes and interfaces for access control and authentication. Supports cryptographic message digests and digital signatures.

java.security.acl

A package that supports access control lists. Deprecated and unused as of Java 1.2.

java.security.cert

Classes and interfaces for working with public-key certificates.

java.security.interfaces

Interfaces used with DSA and RSA public-key encryption.

java.security.spec

Classes and interfaces for transparent representations of keys and parameters used in public-key cryptography.

java.text

Classes and interfaces for working with text in internationalized applications.

java.util

Various utility classes, including the powerful collections framework for working with collections of objects.

java.util.jar

Classes for reading and writing JAR files.

java.util.logging

A flexible logging facility.

java.util.prefs

An API to read and write user and system preferences.

java.util.regex

Text pattern matching using regular expressions.

java.util.zip

Classes for reading and writing ZIP files.

javax.crypto

Classes and interfaces for encryption and decryption of data.

javax.crypto.interfaces

Interfaces that represent the Diffie-Hellman public/private keys used in the Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol.

javax.crypto.spec

Classes that define transparent representations of keys and parameters used in cryptography.

javax.net

Defines factory classes for creating sockets and server sockets. Enables the creation of socket types other than the default.

javax.net.ssl

Classes for encrypted network communication using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

javax.security.auth

The top-level package for the JAAS API for authentication and authorization.

javax.security.auth.callback

Classes that facilitate communication between a low-level login module and a user through a user interface.

javax.security.auth.kerberos

Utility classes to support network authentication using the Kerberos protocol.

javax.security.auth.login

The LoginContext and related classes for user authentication.

javax.security.auth.spi

Defines the LoginModule interface that is implemented by pluggable user-authentication modules.

javax.security.auth.x500

Utility classes that represent X.500 certificate information.

javax.xml.parsers

A high-level API for parsing XML documents using pluggable DOM and SAX parsers.

javax.xml.transform

A high-level API for transforming XML documents using a pluggable XSLT transformation engine and for converting XML documents between streams, DOM trees, and SAX events.

javax.xml.transform.dom

Concrete XML transformation classes for DOM.

javax.xml.transform.sax

Concrete XML transformation classes for SAX.

javax.xml.transform.stream

Concrete XML transformation classes for XML streams.

org.ietf.jgss

The Java binding of the Generic Security Services API, which defines a single API for underlying security mechanisms such as Kerberos.

org.w3c.dom

Interfaces defined by the World Wide Web Consortium to represent an XML document as a DOM tree.

org.xml.sax

Classes and interfaces for parsing XML documents using the event-based SAX (Simple API for XML) API.

org.xml.sax.ext

Extension classes for the SAX API.

org.xml.sax.helpers

Utility classes for the SAX API.

Table 1-1 does not list all the packages in the Java platform, only those documented in this book. (And it omits a few "spi" packages that are documented in this book but are of interest only to low-level "service providers.") Java also defines numerous packages for graphics and graphical user interface programming and for distributed, or enterprise, computing. The graphics and GUI packages are java.awt and javax.swing and their many subpackages. These packages, along with the java.applet package, are documented in Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell (O'Reilly). The enterprise packages of Java include java.rmi, java.sql, javax.jndi, org.omg.CORBA, org.omg.CosNaming, and all of their subpackages. These packages, as well as several standard extensions to the Java platform, are documented in Java Enterprise in a Nutshell (O'Reilly).

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