Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Other versions of the platform, such as the Java
™
2 Platform Enterprise
Edition, contain even more packages.
This topic cannot be large enough to contain full coverage of every
one of these packagessome of them require complete topics of their
own. This chapter discusses some of the
java
subpackages not otherwise
covered in this topic, giving an overview of the purpose and contents, as
well as some of the other packages we have listed. All these packages
are covered in detail in your local documentation and the
java
packages
are covered in the volumes of
The Java
™
Class Libraries, Second Edition
.
Most of the
java
packages, including the
AWT
and applet packages and
some extensions such as Swing, are taught in the different versions of
The Java
™
Tutorial
. These topics and all others cited in this chapter are
part of this official series of documentation from the sourcethe people
who invented the Java programming language, its virtual machine, and
many of its packages.
