text components.

• Sound: interfaces and classes for reading, writing, sequencing, and

synthesizing of sound data.

• Text: java.text deals with text, dates, numbers and messages.

• Image package: java.awt.image and javax.imageio provide APIs to write,

read, and modify images.

• XML: SAX, DOM, StAX, XSLT transforms, XPath and various APIs for

Web services, as SOAP protocol and JAX-WS.

• Security is provided by java.security and encryption services are

provided by javax.crypto.

• Databases: access to SQL databases via java.sql

• Access to Scripting engines: The javax.script package gives access to

any conforming Scripting language.

• Applets: java.applet allows applications to be downloaded over a

network and run within a guarded sandbox

• Java Beans: java.beans provides ways to manipulate reusable

components.

• Introspection and reflection: java.lang.Class represents a class, but

other classes such as Method and Constructor are available in

java.lang.reflect.