Package java.text

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AttributedCharacterIterator	Extends the CharacterIterator interface, adding support for iterating over attributes and not only characters.
CharacterIterator	An interface for the bidirectional iteration over a group of characters.

Class Summary

Class	Description
Annotation	Wrapper for a text attribute value which represents an annotation.
AttributedCharacterIterator.Attribute	Defines keys for text attributes.
AttributedString	Holds a string with attributes describing the characters of this string.
Bidi	Implements the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
BreakIterator	Locates boundaries in text.
ChoiceFormat	Returns a fixed string based on a numeric value.
CollationElementIterator	Created by a RuleBasedCollator to iterate through a string.
CollationKey	Represents a string under the rules of a specific Collator object.
Collator	Performs locale-sensitive string comparison.
DateFormat	Formats or parses dates and times.
DateFormat.Field	The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in AttributedCharacterIterator that the SimpleDateFormat.formatToCharacterIterator(Object) method returns.
DateFormatSymbols	Encapsulates localized date-time formatting data, such as the names of the months, the names of the days of the week, and the time zone data.
DecimalFormat	A concrete subclass of NumberFormat that formats decimal numbers.
DecimalFormatSymbols	Encapsulates the set of symbols (such as the decimal separator, the grouping separator, and so on) needed by DecimalFormat to format numbers.
FieldPosition	Identifies fields in formatted strings.
Format	The base class for all formats.
Format.Field	Inner class used to represent Format attributes in the AttributedCharacterIterator that the formatToCharacterIterator() method returns in Format subclasses.
MessageFormat	Produces concatenated messages in language-neutral way.
MessageFormat.Field	The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys in AttributedCharacterIterator that the MessageFormat.formatToCharacterIterator(Object) method returns.
Normalizer	Provides normalization functions according to Unicode Standard Annex #15: Unicode Normalization Forms.
NumberFormat	The abstract base class for all number formats.
NumberFormat.Field	The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in AttributedCharacterIterator that the Format.formatToCharacterIterator(Object) method returns.
ParsePosition	Tracks the current position in a parsed string.
RuleBasedCollator	A concrete implementation class for Collation.
SimpleDateFormat	Formats and parses dates in a locale-sensitive manner.
StringCharacterIterator	An implementation of CharacterIterator for strings.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
Normalizer.Form	The normalization forms supported by the Normalizer.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
ParseException	Thrown when the string being parsed is not in the correct form.