How many packages and classes are there in Java Standard Edition 8?

Java Standard Edition provides 14 packages namely –

applet − This package provides classes and methods to create and communicate with the applets.
awt− This package provides classes and methods to create user interfaces.
beans− This package contains classes and methods to develop components based on java beans.
io− This package contains classes and methods to read and write data standard input and output devices, streams and files.
lang− This package contains the fundamental classes, methods, and, interfaces of Java language.
math− This package contains classes and methods which helps you to perform arithmetic operations using the Java language.
net− This package provides classes to implement networking applications.
nio− This package defines buffers, which are containers for data, and provides an overview of the other NIO packages.
rmi− This package provides classes, methods, and interfaces for Remote Method Invocation.
security− This package provides classes and interfaces for security framework.
sql− This package provides classes and methods to access and process the data stored in a data source.
text− This package provides classes and interfaces to handle text.
time− This package provides API for dates, times, instants, and durations.
util− This package contains collection framework, collection classes, classes related to date and time, event model, internationalization, and miscellaneous utility classes.

Published on 05-Jan-2018 06:30:22