1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> 2<html> 3<head> 4<!-- 5Copyright (c) 1998, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 8This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 9under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 10published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 11particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 12by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 13 14This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 15ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 16FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 17version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 18accompanied this code). 19 20You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 212 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 22Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 23 24Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 25or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 26questions. 27--> 28 29</head> 30<body bgcolor="white"> 31 32Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, and messages 33in a manner independent of natural languages. This means your main application 34or applet can be written to be language-independent, and it can rely upon 35separate, dynamically-linked localized resources. This allows the flexibility 36of adding localizations for new localizations at any time. 37<p> 38These classes are capable of formatting dates, numbers, and messages, parsing; 39searching and sorting strings; and iterating over characters, words, sentences, 40and line breaks. This package contains three main groups of classes and 41interfaces: 42<ul> 43<li>Classes for iteration over text 44<li>Classes for formatting and parsing 45<li>Classes for string collation 46</ul> 47<!-- 48<h2>Package Specification</h2> 49 50##### FILL IN ANY SPECS NEEDED BY JAVA COMPATIBILITY KIT ##### 51<ul> 52 <li><a href="">##### REFER TO ANY FRAMEMAKER SPECIFICATION HERE #####</a> 53</ul> 54 55<h2>Related Documentation</h2> 56 57For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see: 58<ul> 59 <li><a href="">##### REFER TO NON-SPEC DOCUMENTATION HERE #####</a> 60</ul> 61--> 62 63@since JDK1.1 64</body> 65</html> 66