The Java Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1: Supplement for the Java 2 Platform provides users with an easy-to-use format so that programmers can spend more time coding and less time locating new classes and revisions. Nearly every Java developer doing serious work uses The Java Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1. Now the authors of that eminently respected programming resource have come out with a supplement that updates the contents to reflect the further evolved Java 2 specification. The Java Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1: Supplement for the Java 2 Platform explains every change that_s been made to the java.io, java.lang, java.lang.reflect, java.math, java.net, java.text, java.util, and java.util.zip packages, as well as the new java.util.jar and java.lang.ref packages. It also documents the new java.lang.ref and java.util.jar packages in full. This book does not replace The Java Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1. Rather, the Supplement for the Java 2 Platform works in tandem with that volume...