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Library Classes and Packages

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Concise Guide to Object-Oriented Programming

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In this chapter, we delve into some of the rich pre-built code libraries that make Java a useful language for a wide range of applications. In truth, the libraries that exist as at version 8 of the language are so rich and varied that it is unlikely that many programmers, even experienced professionals, have an encyclopaedic knowledge of them all.

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Sage, K. (2019). Library Classes and Packages. In: Concise Guide to Object-Oriented Programming. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13304-7_4

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