Part 3
Basic Java Classes
Java is much more than a programming language. It is also a set of several thousand classes contained in numerous class libraries. These classes offer you a treasure chest of predefined tools from which you can pick and choose to build your own Java applications. This part presents reference information for many of the most commonly used Java classes.
In this part . . .
Classes for manipulating strings
Classes for building and maintaining collections
Classes for mathematical operations
Classes that work with regular expressions
Classes for managing execution threads
Object-oriented programming
