Module java.base

Provides for system input and output through data streams, serialization and the file system.

Provides library support for the Java programming language annotation facility.

Classes and interfaces to represent nominal descriptors for run-time entities such as classes or method handles, and classfile entities such as constant pool entries or invokedynamic call sites.

The java.lang.invoke package provides low-level primitives for interacting with the Java Virtual Machine.

Provides reference-object classes, which support a limited degree of interaction with the garbage collector.

The java.lang.runtime package provides low-level runtime support for the Java language.

Provides the classes for implementing networking applications.

Defines buffers, which are containers for data, and provides an overview of the other NIO packages.

Service-provider classes for the java.nio.channels package.

Service-provider classes for the java.nio.charset package.

Interfaces and classes providing access to file and file system attributes.

Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework.

Provides interfaces for generating RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman AsymmetricCipher algorithm) keys as defined in the RSA Laboratory Technical Note PKCS#1, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) keys as defined in NIST's FIPS-186.

Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, and messages in a manner independent of natural languages.

The main API for dates, times, instants, and durations.

Provides classes to print and parse dates and times.

Support for time-zones and their rules.

Utility classes commonly useful in concurrent programming.

Interfaces and classes providing a framework for locking and waiting for conditions that is distinct from built-in synchronization and monitors.

Provides classes for reading and writing the JAR (Java ARchive) file format, which is based on the standard ZIP file format with an optional manifest file.

Classes for matching character sequences against patterns specified by regular expressions.

Classes to support functional-style operations on streams of elements, such as map-reduce transformations on collections.

Provides the classes and interfaces for cryptographic operations.

Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications.

Provides classes for the secure socket package.

This package provides the classes necessary for services to interact with applications in order to retrieve information (authentication data including usernames or passwords, for example) or to display information (error and warning messages, for example).

This package provides the interface to be used for implementing pluggable authentication modules.

Provides classes for public key certificates.