JDK Contents
Miscellaneous Features
Guides
- Byte, Short, and Void Classes
Bytes and shorts are accommodated as wrapped numbers by adding new classes Byte and Short. The abstract class Number gets two new concrete methods: byteValue and shortValue; the default implementations of these use intValue method. Also includes a new class Void that is an uninstantiable placeholder class.
- Bignum Class
Useful for values that require high precision fixed point or integer computation. Examples of this are money values, security key values, and values stored in databases using the high precision SQL NUMERIC or
DECIMAL type.
- The @deprecated Tag
Used within documentation comments to mark classes and members as "no-longer-preferred", and directs the developer to replacement classes and members.
- Accessing Resource Files
APIs that provide a mechanism for locating resource files in a way that is
independent of the location of the resources. For example, this mechanism
can locate a resource file whether it is an applet loaded from the net
using multiple HTTP connects, an applet loaded using JAR files, or a
"library" installed in the CLASSPATH.
- APPLET Tag
Enhancements to the <APPLET> tag defined in HTML. Loads applets in the applet viewer or a web browser.
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