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Packages
Package Description
java.beans

Contains classes related to developing beans -- components based on the JavaBeans™ architecture.

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.annotation

Provides library support for the Java programming language annotation facility.

java.lang.instrument

Provides services that allow Java programming language agents to instrument programs running on the JVM.

java.lang.invoke

The java.lang.invoke package contains dynamic language support provided directly by the Java core class libraries and virtual machine.

java.lang.management

Provides the management interfaces for monitoring and management of the Java virtual machine and other components in the Java runtime.

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.nio

Defines buffers, which are containers for data, and provides an overview of the other NIO packages.

java.nio.channels

Defines channels, which represent connections to entities that are capable of performing I/O operations, such as files and sockets; defines selectors, for multiplexed, non-blocking I/O operations.

java.nio.channels.spi

Service-provider classes for the java.nio.channels package.

java.nio.charset

Defines charsets, decoders, and encoders, for translating between bytes and Unicode characters.

java.nio.charset.spi

Service-provider classes for the java.nio.charset package.

java.nio.file

Defines interfaces and classes for the Java virtual machine to access files, file attributes, and file systems.

java.nio.file.attribute

Interfaces and classes providing access to file and file system attributes.

java.nio.file.spi

Service-provider classes for the java.nio.file package.

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, certificate revocation lists (CRLs), and certification paths.

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.text

Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, and messages in a manner independent of natural languages.

java.text.spi

Service provider classes for the classes in the java.text package.

java.time

The main API for dates, times, instants, and durations.

java.time.chrono

Generic API for calendar systems other than the default ISO.

java.time.format

Provides classes to print and parse dates and times.

java.time.temporal

Access to date and time using fields and units, and date time adjusters.

java.time.zone

Support for time-zones and their rules.

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.concurrent

Utility classes commonly useful in concurrent programming.

java.util.concurrent.atomic

A small toolkit of classes that support lock-free thread-safe programming on single variables.

java.util.concurrent.locks

Interfaces and classes providing a framework for locking and waiting for conditions that is distinct from built-in synchronization and monitors.

java.util.function

Functional interfaces provide target types for lambda expressions and method references.

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.logging

Provides the classes and interfaces of the JavaTM 2 platform's core logging facilities.

java.util.prefs

This package allows applications to store and retrieve user and system preference and configuration data.

java.util.regex

Classes for matching character sequences against patterns specified by regular expressions.

java.util.spi

Service provider classes for the classes in the java.util package.

java.util.stream

Classes to support functional-style operations on streams of elements, such as map-reduce transformations on collections.

java.util.zip

Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP file formats.

javax.annotation
javax.annotation.processing

Facilities for declaring annotation processors and for allowing annotation processors to communicate with an annotation processing tool environment.

javax.crypto

Provides the classes and interfaces for cryptographic operations.

javax.crypto.interfaces

Provides interfaces for Diffie-Hellman keys as defined in RSA Laboratories' PKCS #3.

javax.crypto.spec

Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications.

javax.imageio

The main package of the Java Image I/O API.

javax.imageio.event

A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with synchronous notification of events during the reading and writing of images.

javax.imageio.metadata

A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with reading and writing metadata.

javax.imageio.plugins.bmp

Package containing the public classes used by the built-in BMP plug-in.

javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg

Classes supporting the built-in JPEG plug-in.

javax.imageio.spi

A package of the Java Image I/O API containing the plug-in interfaces for readers, writers, transcoders, and streams, and a runtime registry.

javax.imageio.stream

A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with low-level I/O from files and streams.

javax.lang.model

Classes and hierarchies of packages used to model the Java programming language.

javax.lang.model.element

Interfaces used to model elements of the Java programming language.

javax.lang.model.type

Interfaces used to model Java programming language types.

javax.lang.model.util

Utilities to assist in the processing of program elements and types.

javax.management

Provides the core classes for the Java Management Extensions.

javax.management.loading

Provides the classes which implement advanced dynamic loading.

javax.management.modelmbean

Provides the definition of the ModelMBean classes.

javax.management.monitor

Provides the definition of the monitor classes.

javax.management.openmbean

Provides the open data types and Open MBean descriptor classes.

javax.management.relation

Provides the definition of the Relation Service.

javax.management.remote

Interfaces for remote access to JMX MBean servers.

javax.management.remote.rmi

The RMI connector is a connector for the JMX Remote API that uses RMI to transmit client requests to a remote MBean server.

javax.management.timer

Provides the definition of the Timer MBean.

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
javax.net

Provides classes for networking applications.

javax.net.ssl

Provides classes for the secure socket package.

javax.print

Provides the principal classes and interfaces for the JavaTM Print Service API.

javax.print.attribute

Provides classes and interfaces that describe the types of JavaTM Print Service attributes and how they can be collected into attribute sets.

javax.print.attribute.standard

Package javax.print.attribute.standard contains classes for specific printing attributes.

javax.print.event

Package javax.print.event contains event classes and listener interfaces.

javax.script

The scripting API consists of interfaces and classes that define Java TM Scripting Engines and provides a framework for their use in Java applications.

javax.security.auth

This package provides a framework for authentication and authorization.

javax.security.auth.callback

This package provides the classes necessary for services to interact with applications in order to retrieve information (authentication data including usernames or passwords, for example) or to display information (error and warning messages, for example).

javax.security.auth.kerberos

This package contains utility classes related to the Kerberos network authentication protocol.

javax.security.auth.login

This package provides a pluggable authentication framework.

javax.security.auth.spi

This package provides the interface to be used for implementing pluggable authentication modules.

javax.security.auth.x500

This package contains the classes that should be used to store X500 Principal and X500 Private Credentials in a Subject.

javax.security.cert

Provides classes for public key certificates.

javax.security.sasl

Contains class and interfaces for supporting SASL.

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.tools

Provides interfaces for tools which can be invoked from a program, for example, compilers.

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