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This document is the API specification for version 6 of the Java™ Platform, Standard Edition.
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     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.dnd.peer
Provides for interfacing with the underlying window system in order to access its platform-dependent drag-and-drop facilities.

         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.peer
Provides for interfacing with the underlying window system.

         java.awt.print
Provides classes and interfaces for a general printing API.

     java.beans
Contains classes related to developing -- 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.management
Provides the management interface for monitoring and management of the Java virtual machine as well as the operating system on which the Java virtual machine is running.

         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 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 package.

     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, 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.sql
Provides the API for accessing and processing data stored in a data source (usually a relational database) using the Java programming language.

     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.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.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 Java 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.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.activation

     javax.activity
Contains Activity service related exceptions thrown by the ORB machinery during unmarshalling.

     javax.annotation

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

     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.jws

         javax.jws.soap

         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 and .

     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 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 and related packages.

     javax.print
Provides the principal classes and interfaces for the Java Print Service API.

         javax.print.attribute
Provides classes and interfaces that describe the types of Java 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.rmi
Contains user APIs for RMI-IIOP.

         javax.rmi.CORBA
Contains portability APIs for RMI-IIOP.

         javax.rmi.ssl
Provides implementations of and over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols.

     javax.script
The scripting API consists of interfaces and classes that define Java 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 Crendentials in a .

         javax.security.sasl
Contains class and interfaces for supporting SASL.

     javax.smartcardio
Java™ Smart Card I/O API

         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.sql
Provides the API for server side data source access and processing from the Java programming language.

         javax.sql.rowset
Standard interfaces and base classes for JDBC implementations.

             javax.sql.rowset.serial
Provides utility classes to allow serializable mappings between SQL types and data types in the Java programming language.

             javax.sql.rowset.spi
The standard classes and interfaces that a third party vendor has to use in its implementation of a synchronization provider.

     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 component.

         javax.swing.event
Provides for events fired by Swing components.

         javax.swing.filechooser
Contains classes and interfaces used by the 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 Java look and feel (once codenamed ), which is the default look and feel.

             javax.swing.plaf.multi
Provides user interface objects that combine two or more look and feels.

             javax.swing.plaf.synth
Synth is a skinnable look and feel in which all painting is delegated.

         javax.swing.table
Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with .

         javax.swing.text
Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components.

             javax.swing.text.html
Provides the class 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 () for creating Rich-Text-Format text editors.

         javax.swing.tree
Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with .

         javax.swing.undo
Allows developers to provide support for undo/redo in applications such as text editors.

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

     javax.transaction
Contains three exceptions thrown by the ORB machinery during unmarshalling.

         javax.transaction.xa
Provides the API that defines the contract between the transaction manager and the resource manager, which allows the transaction manager to enlist and delist resource objects (supplied by the resource manager driver) in JTA transactions.

     javax.xml
Defines core XML constants and functionality from the XML specifications.

         javax.xml.bind
Provides a runtime binding framework for client applications including unmarshalling, marshalling, and validation capabilities.

             javax.xml.bind.annotation
Defines annotations for customizing Java program elements to XML Schema mapping.

                 javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters
and its spec-defined sub-classes to allow arbitrary Java classes to be used with JAXB.

             javax.xml.bind.attachment
This package is implemented by a MIME-based package processor that enables the interpretation and creation of optimized binary data within an MIME-based package format.

             javax.xml.bind.helpers
Provides partial default implementations for some of the interfaces.

             javax.xml.bind.util
Useful client utility classes.

         javax.xml.crypto
Common classes for XML cryptography.

             javax.xml.crypto.dom
DOM-specific classes for the package.

             javax.xml.crypto.dsig
Classes for generating and validating XML digital signatures.

                 javax.xml.crypto.dsig.dom
DOM-specific classes for the package.

                 javax.xml.crypto.dsig.keyinfo
Classes for parsing and processing elements and structures.

                 javax.xml.crypto.dsig.spec
Parameter classes for XML digital signatures.

         javax.xml.datatype
XML/Java Type Mappings.

         javax.xml.namespace
XML Namespace processing.

         javax.xml.parsers
Provides classes allowing the processing of XML documents.

         javax.xml.soap
Provides the API for creating and building SOAP messages.

         javax.xml.stream

             javax.xml.stream.events

             javax.xml.stream.util

         javax.xml.transform
This package defines the generic APIs for processing transformation instructions, and performing a transformation from source to result.

             javax.xml.transform.dom
This package implements DOM-specific transformation APIs.

             javax.xml.transform.sax
This package implements SAX2-specific transformation APIs.

             javax.xml.transform.stax
Provides for StAX-specific transformation APIs.

             javax.xml.transform.stream
This package implements stream- and URI- specific transformation APIs.

         javax.xml.validation
This package provides an API for validation of XML documents.

         javax.xml.ws
This package contains the core JAX-WS APIs.

             javax.xml.ws.handler
This package defines APIs for message handlers.

                 javax.xml.ws.handler.soap
This package defines APIs for SOAP message handlers.

             javax.xml.ws.http
This package defines APIs specific to the HTTP binding.

             javax.xml.ws.soap
This package defines APIs specific to the SOAP binding.

             javax.xml.ws.spi
This package defines SPIs for JAX-WS 2.0.

         javax.xml.xpath
This package provides an API for the evaluation of XPath expressions and access to the evaluation environment.

         org.ietf.jgss
This package presents a framework that allows application developers to make use of security services like authentication, data integrity and data confidentiality from a variety of underlying security mechanisms like Kerberos, using a unified API.

                 org.jcp.xml.dsig.internal
Contains the classes of the Reference Implementation of JSR 105.

                     org.jcp.xml.dsig.internal.dom

         org.omg.CORBA
Provides the mapping of the OMG CORBA APIs to the Java TM programming language, including the class , 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[tm] Standard Edition 6.   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 package.

             org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage
Provides the exceptions used with the interface (, , and ).

             org.omg.CORBA.ORBPackage
Provides the exception , which is thrown by the method and the exception , 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 and , which are thrown by methods in in the class .

         org.omg.CosNaming
Provides a naming service for Java IDL.

         org.omg.PortableServer
Provides classes and interfaces for making the server side of your applications portable across multivendor ORBs.

             org.omg.PortableServer.portable
Provides classes and interfaces for making the server side of your applications portable across multivendor ORBs.

             org.omg.PortableServer.ServantLocatorPackage
Provides classes and interfaces for locating the servant.

         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 package.

         org.relaxng.datatype

             org.relaxng.datatype.helpers

         org.w3c.dom
Provides the interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM) which is a component API of the Java API for XML Processing.

             org.w3c.dom.bootstrap

             org.w3c.dom.css

             org.w3c.dom.events

             org.w3c.dom.html

             org.w3c.dom.ls

             org.w3c.dom.ranges
Document Object Model Level 2 Traversal and Range is a platform and language-neutral interfaces that allow programs and scripts to dynamically traverse and identify a range of content in a document.

             org.w3c.dom.stylesheets

             org.w3c.dom.traversal

             org.w3c.dom.views

             org.w3c.dom.xpath

         org.xml.sax
This package provides the core SAX APIs.

             org.xml.sax.ext
This package contains interfaces to SAX2 facilities that conformant SAX drivers won't necessarily support.

             org.xml.sax.helpers
This package contains "helper" classes, including support for bootstrapping SAX-based applications.

 
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