6.8. Java API Packages
As we have seen, Java contains many predefined classes that are grouped into categories of related classes called packages. Together, we refer to these packages as the Java Application Programming Interface (Java API), or the Java class library.
Throughout the text, import declarations specify the classes required to compile a Java program. For example, a program includes the declaration
import java.util.Scanner;to specify that the program uses class Scanner from the java.util package. This allows you to use the simple class name Scanner, rather than the fully qualified class name java.util.Scanner, in the code. A great strength of Java is the large number of classes in the packages of the Java API. Some key Java API ...
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