javax vs java package
What's the rationale behind the javax package? What goes into java and what into javax?
I know a lot of enterprise-y packages are in javax, but so is Swing, the new date and time api (JSR-310) and other J2SE packages.
I think it's a historical thing - if a package is introduced as an addition to an existing JRE, it comes in as javax . If it's first introduced as part of a JRE (like NIO was, I believe) then it comes in as java . Not sure why the new date and time API will end up as javax following this logic though... unless it will also be available separately as a library to work with earlier versions (which would be useful). Note from many years later: it actually ended up being in java after all.
I believe there are restrictions on the java package - I think classloaders are set up to only allow classes within java.* to be loaded from rt.jar or something similar. (There's certainly a check in ClassLoader.preDefineClass .)
EDIT: While an official explanation (the search orbfish suggested didn't yield one in the first page or so) is no doubt about "core" vs "extension", I still suspect that in many cases the decision for any particular package has an historical reason behind it too. Is java.beans really that "core" to Java, for example?
originally javax was intended to be for extensions, and sometimes things would be promoted out of javax into java.
One issue was Netscape (and probably IE) limiting classes that could be in the java package.
When Swing was set to "graduate" to java from javax there was sort of a mini-blow up because people realized that they would have to modify all of their imports. Given that backwards compatibility is one of the primary goals of Java they changed their mind.
At that point in time, at least for the community (maybe not for Sun) the whole point of javax was lost. So now we have some things in javax that probably should be in java... but aside from the people that chose the package names I don't know if anyone can figure out what the rationale is on a case-by-case basis.
java packages are "base", and javax packages are extensions.
Swing was an extension because AWT was the original UI API. Swing came afterwards, in version 1.1.
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