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Introduction to Programming

You're reading from   Introduction to Programming Learn to program in Java with data structures, algorithms, and logic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839129
Length 722 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nick Samoylov Nick Samoylov
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Preface 1. Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on Your Computer FREE CHAPTER 2. Java Language Basics 3. Your Development Environment Setup 4. Your First Java Project 5. Java Language Elements and Types 6. Interfaces, Classes, and Object Construction 7. Packages and Accessibility (Visibility) 8. Object-Oriented Design (OOD) Principles 9. Operators, Expressions, and Statements 10. Control Flow Statements 11. JVM Processes and Garbage Collection 12. Java Standard and External Libraries 13. Java Collections 14. Managing Collections and Arrays 15. Managing Objects, Strings, Time, and Random Numbers 16. Database Programming 17. Lambda Expressions and Functional Programming 18. Streams and Pipelines 19. Reactive Systems 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Java standard libraries

If you search "Java API" on the internet, you will find an online description of all the packages included in JDK. Some package names start with java. They are traditionally called core Java packages, while those that start with javax used to be called extensions. This was done so probably because the extensions were thought to be optional and maybe even released independently of JDK. There was also an attempt to promote former extension libraries to become a core package, but that would require the package's name to change from Java to Javax, which would have broken the already existing applications. So, the idea was abandoned, the extensions became as standard part of JDK as the core, and the distinction between core and extensions gradually disappeared.

That is why if you look at the official Java API on the Oracle website you will see...

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