Sunday, October 31, 2010

JAVA - Libraries and APIs documentation

Excerpt from "Java How to Program, by Deitel":

For each new Java API class we  use, we indicate the package in which it is located. This information helps you locate descriptions of each package and class in the Java API documentation.

A web version of this documentation can be found at :
java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/

You can download this documentation from
java.sun.com/javase/downloads

Appendix E shows how to use this documentation.

4 comments:

  1. Except from page 1416 (appendix E):

    The Java class library contains thousands of predefined classes and interfaces that programmers can use to write their own applications.

    These classes are grouped into packages based on their functionality.

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  2. The links to the java api documentation do not work....

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  3. it works for me, I jsut get redirected....
    by typing "java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/" into my brower url I get redirected to
    "http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/", but it looks like java documentation from Oracle (Sum was aqcuired by Oracle a while ago)

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