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This trail is home to coverage of new APIs added to the most recent releases of the JavaTM 2 platform, version 1.4 and the new version 5.0.

Generics, introduced in J2SE 5.0, is the long-awaited enhancement to the type system. It allows a type or method to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety. It adds compile-time type safety to the Collections Framework and eliminates the drudgery of casting.

Full-Screen Exclusive Mode API teaches you about a powerful feature of J2SETM version 1.4 that allows the programmer to suspend the windowing system so that drawing can be done directly to the screen. Programmers writing games or other graphic-intensive applications should read this lesson.

Regular Expressions explains how to use the java.util.regex API for pattern matching with regular expressions. This new package uses Perl-like syntax, but no prior experience with regular expressions is assumed.


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