The Platform Environment
Trail: Essential Classes

Lesson: The Platform Environment

An application runs in a platform environment, defined by the underlying operating system, the Java virtual machine, the class libraries, and various configuration data supplied when the application is launched. This lesson describes some of the APIs an application uses to examine and configure its platform environment. The lesson consists of three sections:


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