You're reading from Learn Java 17 Programming Learn the fundamentals of Java Programming with this updated guide with the latest features

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803241432

Length 748 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Java design patterns

Concepts

Object Oriented Programming

Author (1):

Nick Samoylov

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Overview of Java Programming

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java 17 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Java Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

4. Chapter 3: Java Fundamentals

5. Part 2: Building Blocks of Java

6. Chapter 4: Exception Handling

7. Chapter 5: Strings, Input/Output,and Files

8. Chapter 6: Data Structures, Generics, and Popular Utilities

9. Chapter 7: Java Standard and External Libraries

10. Chapter 8: Multithreading and Concurrent Processing

11. Chapter 9: JVM Structure and Garbage Collection

12. Chapter 10: Managing Data in a Database

13. Chapter 11: Network Programming

14. Chapter 12: Java GUI Programming

15. Part 3: Advanced Java

16. Chapter 13: Functional Programming

17. Chapter 14: Java Standard Streams

18. Chapter 15: Reactive Programming

19. Chapter 16: Java Microbenchmark Harness

20. Chapter 17: Best Practices for Writing High-Quality Code

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 7: Java Standard and External Libraries

It is not possible to write a Java program without using the standard libraries, also called the Java Class Library (JCL). That is why a solid familiarity with such libraries is as vital for successful programming as knowing the language itself.

There are also the non-standard libraries, which are called external libraries or third-party libraries because they are not included in the Java Development Kit (JDK) distribution. Some of them have long become a permanent fixture of any programmer’s toolkit.

Keeping track of all the functionality that’s available in these libraries is not easy. This is because an integrated development environment (IDE) gives you a hint about the language’s possibilities, but it cannot advise you about the functionality of a package that hasn’t been imported yet. The only package that is imported automatically is java.lang.

The purpose of this chapter is to provide you with...