JavaTM 2 Platform
Std. Ed. v1.3

JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.3
API Specification

This document is the API specification for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.3.

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Java 2 Platform Packages
java.applet Provides the classes necessary to create an applet and the classes an applet uses to communicate with its applet context.
java.awt Contains all of the classes for creating user interfaces and for painting graphics and images.
java.awt.color Provides classes for color spaces.
java.awt.datatransfer Provides interfaces and classes for transferring data between and within applications.
java.awt.dnd Drag and Drop is a direct manipulation gesture found in many Graphical User Interface systems that provides a mechanism to transfer information between two entities logically associated with presentation elements in the GUI.
java.awt.event Provides interfaces and classes for dealing with different types of events fired by AWT components.
java.awt.font Provides classes and interface relating to fonts.
java.awt.geom Provides the Java 2D classes for defining and performing operations on objects related to two-dimensional geometry.
java.awt.im Provides classes and interfaces for the input method framework.
java.awt.im.spi Provides interfaces that enable the development of input methods that can be used with any Java runtime environment.
java.awt.image Provides classes for creating and modifying images.
java.awt.image.renderable Provides classes and interfaces for producing rendering-independent images.
java.awt.print Provides classes and interfaces for a general printing API.
java.beans Contains classes related to Java Beans development.
java.beans.beancontext Provides classes and interfaces relating to bean context.
java.io Provides for system input and output through data streams, serialization and the file system.
java.lang Provides classes that are fundamental to the design of the Java programming language.
java.lang.ref Provides reference-object classes, which support a limited degree of interaction with the garbage collector.
java.lang.reflect Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective information about classes and objects.
java.math Provides classes for performing arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic (BigInteger) and arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic (BigDecimal).
java.net Provides the classes for implementing networking applications.
java.rmi Provides the RMI package.
java.rmi.activation Provides support for RMI Object Activation.
java.rmi.dgc Provides classes and interface for RMI distributed garbage-collection (DGC).
java.rmi.registry Provides a class and two interfaces for the RMI registry.
java.rmi.server Provides classes and interfaces for supporting the server side of RMI.
java.security Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework.
java.security.acl The classes and interfaces in this package have been superseded by classes in the java.security package.
java.security.cert Provides classes and interfaces for parsing and managing certificates.
java.security.interfaces Provides interfaces for generating RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman AsymmetricCipher algorithm) keys as defined in the RSA Laboratory Technical Note PKCS#1, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) keys as defined in NIST's FIPS-186.
java.security.spec Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications.
java.sql Provides the API for accessing and processing data in a data source using the JavaTM programming language.
java.text Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, and messages in a manner independent of natural languages.
java.util Contains the collections framework, legacy collection classes, event model, date and time facilities, internationalization, and miscellaneous utility classes (a string tokenizer, a random-number generator, and a bit array).
java.util.jar Provides classes for reading and writing the JAR (Java ARchive) file format, which is based on the standard ZIP file format with an optional manifest file.
java.util.zip Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP file formats.
javax.accessibility Defines a contract between user-interface components and an assistive technology that provides access to those components.
javax.naming Provides the classes and interfaces for accessing naming services.
javax.naming.directory Extends the javax.naming package to provide functionality for accessing directory services.
javax.naming.event Provides support for event notification when accessing naming and directory services.
javax.naming.ldap Provides support for LDAPv3 extended operations and controls.
javax.naming.spi Provides the means for dynamically plugging in support for accessing naming and directory services through the javax.naming and related packages.
javax.rmi Contains user APIs for RMI-IIOP.
javax.rmi.CORBA Contains portability APIs for RMI-IIOP.
javax.sound.midi Provides interfaces and classes for I/O, sequencing, and synthesis of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data.
javax.sound.midi.spi Supplies interfaces for service providers to implement when offering new MIDI devices, MIDI file readers and writers, or sound bank readers.
javax.sound.sampled Provides interfaces and classes for capture, processing, and playback of sampled audio data.
javax.sound.sampled.spi Supplies abstract classes for service providers to subclass when offering new audio devices, sound file readers and writers, or audio format converters.
javax.swing Provides a set of "lightweight" (all-Java language) components that, to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms.
javax.swing.border Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component.
javax.swing.colorchooser Contains classes and interfaces used by the JColorChooser component.
javax.swing.event Provides for events fired by Swing components.
javax.swing.filechooser Contains classes and interfaces used by the JFileChooser component.
javax.swing.plaf Provides one interface and many abstract classes that Swing uses to provide its pluggable look-and-feel capabilities.
javax.swing.plaf.basic Provides user interface objects built according to the Basic look-and-feel.
javax.swing.plaf.metal Provides user interface objects built according to the ``metal'' look-and-feel.
javax.swing.plaf.multi The multiplexing look and feel allows users to combine auxiliary look and feels with the default look and feel.
javax.swing.table Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with javax.swing.JTable.
javax.swing.text Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components.
javax.swing.text.html Provides the class HTMLEditorKit and supporting classes for creating HTML text editors.
javax.swing.text.html.parser Provides the default HTML parser, along with support classes.
javax.swing.text.rtf Provides a class (RTFEditorKit) for creating Rich-Text-Format text editors.
javax.swing.tree Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with javax.swing.JTree.
javax.swing.undo Provides support for undo/redo capabilities in an application such as a text editor.
javax.transaction Contains three exceptions thrown by the ORB machinery during unmarshalling.
org.omg.CORBA Provides the mapping of the OMG CORBA APIs to the JavaTM programming language, including the class ORB, which is implemented so that a programmer can use it as a fully-functional Object Request Broker (ORB).
org.omg.CORBA_2_3 The CORBA_2_3 package defines additions to existing CORBA interfaces in the Java 2 Standard Edition.   These changes occurred in recent revisions to the CORBA API defined by the OMG.  The new methods were added to  interfaces derived from the corresponding interfaces in the CORBA package.  This provides backward compatibility and avoids breaking the JCK tests.
org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable Provides methods for the input and output of value types, and contains other updates to the org/omg/CORBA/portable package.
org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage Provides the exceptions used with the DynAny interface (InvalidValue, Invalid, InvalidSeq, and TypeMismatch).
org.omg.CORBA.ORBPackage Provides the exception InvalidName, which is thrown by the method ORB.resolve_initial_references and the exception InconsistentTypeCode, which is thrown by the Dynamic Any creation methods in the ORB class.
org.omg.CORBA.portable Provides a portability layer, that is, a set of ORB APIs that makes it possible for code generated by one vendor to run on another vendor's ORB.
org.omg.CORBA.TypeCodePackage Provides the user-defined exceptions BadKind and Bounds, which are thrown by methods in in the class TypeCode.
org.omg.CosNaming Provides the naming service for Java IDL.
org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage Provides the exceptions used in the package org.omg.CosNaming (AlreadyBound, CannotProceed, InvalidName, NotEmpty, and NotFound) and also the Helper and Holder classes for those exceptions.
org.omg.SendingContext Provides support for the marshalling of value types.
org.omg.stub.java.rmi Contains RMI-IIOP Stubs for the Remote types that occur in the java.rmi package.

 

This document is the API specification for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.3.


JavaTM 2 Platform
Std. Ed. v1.3

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