This chapter provides a handful of Java odds and ends. The primary goal of this chapter is twofold:
It will present you with an overview of some very involved APIs that can take entire books to cover adequately.
It will discuss a few core Java odds and ends that didn't fit elsewhere in Agile Java.
You will learn about:
JARs
the finalize method
regular expressions
JDBC
internationalization
call by reference versus call by value
Java periphery: quick overviews of various other Java APIs, with pointers to more information