Please note that this documentation is not final and is subject to change.

Uses of Class
java.lang.String

Packages that use String

java.applet	Provides the classes necessary to create an applet and the classes an applet uses to communicate with its applet context.
java.awt	Contains all of the classes for creating user interfaces and for painting graphics and images.
java.awt.color	Provides classes for color spaces.
java.awt.datatransfer	Provides interfaces and classes for transferring data between and within applications.
java.awt.dnd	Drag and Drop is a direct manipulation gesture found in many Graphical User Interface systems that provides a mechanism to transfer information between two entities logically associated with presentation elements in the GUI.
java.awt.event	Provides interfaces and classes for dealing with different types of events fired by AWT components.
java.awt.font	Provides classes and interface relating to fonts.
java.awt.geom	Provides the Java 2D classes for defining and performing operations on objects related to two-dimensional geometry.
java.awt.im.spi	Provides interfaces that enable the development of input methods that can be used with any Java runtime environment.
java.awt.image	Provides classes for creating and modifying images.
java.awt.image.renderable	Provides classes and interfaces for producing rendering-independent images.
java.awt.print	Provides classes and interfaces for a general printing API.
java.beans	Contains classes related to developing beans -- components based on the JavaBeansTM architecture.
java.beans.beancontext	Provides classes and interfaces relating to bean context.
java.io	Provides for system input and output through data streams, serialization and the file system.
java.lang	Provides classes that are fundamental to the design of the Java programming language.
java.lang.annotation	Provides library support for the Java programming language annotation facility.
java.lang.instrument	Provides services that allow Java programming language agents to instrument programs running on the JVM.
java.lang.management	Provides the management interface for monitoring and management of the Java virtual machine as well as the operating system on which the Java virtual machine is running.
java.lang.reflect	Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective information about classes and objects.
java.math	Provides classes for performing arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic (BigInteger) and arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic (BigDecimal).
java.net	Provides the classes for implementing networking applications.
java.nio	Defines buffers, which are containers for data, and provides an overview of the other NIO packages.
java.nio.channels	Defines channels, which represent connections to entities that are capable of performing I/O operations, such as files and sockets; defines selectors, for multiplexed, non-blocking I/O operations.
java.nio.charset	Defines charsets, decoders, and encoders, for translating between bytes and Unicode characters.
java.nio.charset.spi	Service-provider classes for the java.nio.charset package.
java.rmi	Provides the RMI package.
java.rmi.activation	Provides support for RMI Object Activation.
java.rmi.dgc	Provides classes and interface for RMI distributed garbage-collection (DGC).
java.rmi.registry	Provides a class and two interfaces for the RMI registry.
java.rmi.server	Provides classes and interfaces for supporting the server side of RMI.
java.security	Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework.
java.security.acl	The classes and interfaces in this package have been superseded by classes in the java.security package.
java.security.cert	Provides classes and interfaces for parsing and managing certificates, certificate revocation lists (CRLs), and certification paths.
java.security.spec	Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications.
java.sql	Provides the API for accessing and processing data stored in a data source (usually a relational database) using the JavaTM programming language.
java.text	Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers, and messages in a manner independent of natural languages.
java.util	Contains the collections framework, legacy collection classes, event model, date and time facilities, internationalization, and miscellaneous utility classes (a string tokenizer, a random-number generator, and a bit array).
java.util.concurrent	Utility classes commonly useful in concurrent programming.
java.util.concurrent.atomic	A small toolkit of classes that support lock-free thread-safe programming on single variables.
java.util.concurrent.locks	Interfaces and classes providing a framework for locking and waiting for conditions that is distinct from built-in synchronization and monitors.
java.util.jar	Provides classes for reading and writing the JAR (Java ARchive) file format, which is based on the standard ZIP file format with an optional manifest file.
java.util.logging	Provides the classes and interfaces of the JavaTM 2 platform's core logging facilities.
java.util.prefs	This package allows applications to store and retrieve user and system preference and configuration data.
java.util.regex	Classes for matching character sequences against patterns specified by regular expressions.
java.util.spi	Service provider classes for the classes in the java.util package.
java.util.zip	Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP file formats.
javax.accessibility	Defines a contract between user-interface components and an assistive technology that provides access to those components.
javax.activation
javax.activity	Contains Activity service related exceptions thrown by the ORB machinery during unmarshalling.
javax.annotation
javax.annotation.processing	Facilities for declaring annotation processors and for allowing annotation processors to communicate with an annotation processing tool environment.
javax.crypto	Provides the classes and interfaces for cryptographic operations.
javax.crypto.spec	Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications.
javax.imageio	The main package of the Java Image I/O API.
javax.imageio.event	A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with synchronous notification of events during the reading and writing of images.
javax.imageio.metadata	A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with reading and writing metadata.
javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg	Classes supporting the built-in JPEG plug-in.
javax.imageio.spi	A package of the Java Image I/O API containing the plug-in interfaces for readers, writers, transcoders, and streams, and a runtime registry.
javax.imageio.stream	A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with low-level I/O from files and streams.
javax.jws
javax.jws.soap
javax.lang.model	Classes and hierarchies of packages used to model the Java programming language.
javax.lang.model.element	Interfaces used to model elements of the Java programming language.
javax.lang.model.type	Interfaces used to model Java programming language types.
javax.lang.model.util	Utilities to assist in the processing of program elements and types.
javax.management	Provides the core classes for the Java Management Extensions.
javax.management.loading	Provides the classes which implement advanced dynamic loading.
javax.management.modelmbean	Provides the definition of the ModelMBean classes.
javax.management.monitor	Provides the definition of the monitor classes.
javax.management.openmbean	Provides the open data types and Open MBean descriptor classes.
javax.management.relation	Provides the definition of the Relation Service.
javax.management.remote	Interfaces for remote access to JMX MBean servers.
javax.management.remote.rmi	The RMI connector is a connector for the JMX Remote API that uses RMI to transmit client requests to a remote MBean server.
javax.management.timer	Provides the definition of the Timer MBean.
javax.naming	Provides the classes and interfaces for accessing naming services.
javax.naming.directory	Extends the javax.naming package to provide functionality for accessing directory services.
javax.naming.event	Provides support for event notification when accessing naming and directory services.
javax.naming.ldap	Provides support for LDAPv3 extended operations and controls.
javax.naming.spi	Provides the means for dynamically plugging in support for accessing naming and directory services through the javax.naming and related packages.
javax.net	Provides classes for networking applications.
javax.net.ssl	Provides classes for the secure socket package.
javax.print	Provides the principal classes and interfaces for the JavaTM Print Service API.
javax.print.attribute	Provides classes and interfaces that describe the types of JavaTM Print Service attributes and how they can be collected into attribute sets.
javax.print.attribute.standard	Package javax.print.attribute.standard contains classes for specific printing attributes.
javax.print.event	Package javax.print.event contains event classes and listener interfaces.
javax.rmi.CORBA	Contains portability APIs for RMI-IIOP.
javax.rmi.ssl	Provides implementations of RMIClientSocketFactory and RMIServerSocketFactory over the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols.
javax.script	The scripting API consists of interfaces and classes that define Java TM Scripting Engines and provides a framework for their use in Java applications.
javax.security.auth	This package provides a framework for authentication and authorization.
javax.security.auth.callback	This package provides the classes necessary for services to interact with applications in order to retrieve information (authentication data including usernames or passwords, for example) or to display information (error and warning messages, for example).
javax.security.auth.kerberos	This package contains utility classes related to the Kerberos network authentication protocol.
javax.security.auth.login	This package provides a pluggable authentication framework.
javax.security.auth.spi	This package provides the interface to be used for implementing pluggable authentication modules.
javax.security.auth.x500	This package contains the classes that should be used to store X500 Principal and X500 Private Crendentials in a Subject.
javax.security.cert	Provides classes for public key certificates.
javax.security.sasl	Contains class and interfaces for supporting SASL.
javax.sound.midi	Provides interfaces and classes for I/O, sequencing, and synthesis of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data.
javax.sound.sampled	Provides interfaces and classes for capture, processing, and playback of sampled audio data.
javax.sql	Provides the API for server side data source access and processing from the JavaTM programming language.
javax.sql.rowset	Standard interfaces and base classes for JDBC RowSet implementations.
javax.sql.rowset.serial	Provides utility classes to allow serializable mappings between SQL types and data types in the Java programming language.
javax.sql.rowset.spi	The standard classes and interfaces that a third party vendor has to use in its implementation of a synchronization provider.
javax.swing	Provides a set of "lightweight" (all-Java language) components that, to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms.
javax.swing.border	Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component.
javax.swing.colorchooser	Contains classes and interfaces used by the JColorChooser component.
javax.swing.event	Provides for events fired by Swing components.
javax.swing.filechooser	Contains classes and interfaces used by the JFileChooser component.
javax.swing.plaf	Provides one interface and many abstract classes that Swing uses to provide its pluggable look-and-feel capabilities.
javax.swing.plaf.basic	Provides user interface objects built according to the Basic look and feel.
javax.swing.plaf.metal	Provides user interface objects built according to the Java look and feel (once codenamed Metal), which is the default look and feel.
javax.swing.plaf.multi	Provides user interface objects that combine two or more look and feels.
javax.swing.plaf.synth	Synth is a skinnable look and feel in which all painting is delegated.
javax.swing.table	Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with javax.swing.JTable.
javax.swing.text	Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components.
javax.swing.text.html	Provides the class HTMLEditorKit and supporting classes for creating HTML text editors.
javax.swing.text.html.parser	Provides the default HTML parser, along with support classes.
javax.swing.text.rtf	Provides a class (RTFEditorKit) for creating Rich-Text-Format text editors.
javax.swing.tree	Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with javax.swing.JTree.
javax.swing.undo	Allows developers to provide support for undo/redo in applications such as text editors.
javax.tools	Provides interfaces for tools which can be invoked from a program, for example, compilers.
javax.transaction	Contains three exceptions thrown by the ORB machinery during unmarshalling.
javax.transaction.xa	Provides the API that defines the contract between the transaction manager and the resource manager, which allows the transaction manager to enlist and delist resource objects (supplied by the resource manager driver) in JTA transactions.
javax.xml
javax.xml.bind	Provides a runtime binding framework for client applications including unmarshalling, marshalling, and validation capabilities.
javax.xml.bind.annotation	Defines annotations for customizing Java program elements to XML Schema mapping.
javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters	XmlAdapter and its spec-defined sub-classes to allow arbitrary Java classes to be used with JAXB.
javax.xml.bind.attachment	This package is implemented by a MIME-based package processor that enables the interpretation and creation of optimized binary data within an MIME-based package format.
javax.xml.bind.helpers	JAXB Provider Use Only: Provides partial default implementations for some of the javax.xml.bind interfaces.
javax.xml.crypto	Common classes for XML cryptography.
javax.xml.crypto.dom	DOM-specific classes for the javax.xml.crypto package.
javax.xml.crypto.dsig	Classes for generating and validating XML digital signatures.
javax.xml.crypto.dsig.keyinfo	Classes for parsing and processing KeyInfo elements and structures.
javax.xml.crypto.dsig.spec	Parameter classes for XML digital signatures.
javax.xml.datatype	XML/Java Type Mappings.
javax.xml.namespace	XML Namespace processing.
javax.xml.parsers	Provides classes allowing the processing of XML documents.
javax.xml.soap	Provides the API for creating and building SOAP messages.
javax.xml.stream
javax.xml.stream.events
javax.xml.stream.util
javax.xml.transform	This package defines the generic APIs for processing transformation instructions, and performing a transformation from source to result.
javax.xml.transform.dom	This package implements DOM-specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.transform.sax	This package implements SAX2-specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.transform.stax	Provides for StAX-specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.transform.stream	This package implements stream- and URI- specific transformation APIs.
javax.xml.validation	This package provides an API for validation of XML documents.
javax.xml.ws	This package contains the core JAX-WS APIs.
javax.xml.ws.handler	This package defines APIs for message handlers.
javax.xml.ws.handler.soap	This package defines APIs for SOAP message handlers.
javax.xml.ws.http	This package defines APIs specific to the HTTP binding.
javax.xml.ws.soap	This package defines APIs specific to the SOAP binding.
javax.xml.ws.spi	This package defines SPIs for JAX-WS 2.0.
javax.xml.xpath	This package provides an object-model neutral API for the evaluation of XPath expressions and access to the evaluation environment.
org.ietf.jgss	This package presents a framework that allows application developers to make use of security services like authentication, data integrity and data confidentiality from a variety of underlying security mechanisms like Kerberos, using a unified API.
org.omg.CORBA	Provides the mapping of the OMG CORBA APIs to the JavaTM programming language, including the class ORB, which is implemented so that a programmer can use it as a fully-functional Object Request Broker (ORB).
org.omg.CORBA_2_3	The CORBA_2_3 package defines additions to existing CORBA interfaces in the Java[tm] Standard Edition 6. These changes occurred in recent revisions to the CORBA API defined by the OMG. The new methods were added to interfaces derived from the corresponding interfaces in the CORBA package. This provides backward compatibility and avoids breaking the JCK tests.
org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable	Provides methods for the input and output of value types, and contains other updates to the org/omg/CORBA/portable package.
org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage	Provides the exceptions used with the DynAny interface (InvalidValue, Invalid, InvalidSeq, and TypeMismatch).
org.omg.CORBA.ORBPackage	Provides the exception InvalidName, which is thrown by the method ORB.resolve_initial_references and the exception InconsistentTypeCode, which is thrown by the Dynamic Any creation methods in the ORB class.
org.omg.CORBA.portable	Provides a portability layer, that is, a set of ORB APIs that makes it possible for code generated by one vendor to run on another vendor's ORB.
org.omg.CORBA.TypeCodePackage	Provides the user-defined exceptions BadKind and Bounds, which are thrown by methods in in the class TypeCode.
org.omg.CosNaming	Provides a naming service for Java IDL.
org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExtPackage	This package contains the following classes, which are used in org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextExt:
org.omg.CosNaming.NamingContextPackage	This package contains Exception classes for the org.omg.CosNaming package.
org.omg.DynamicAny	Provides classes and interfaces that enable traversal of the data value associated with an any at runtime, and extraction of the primitive constituents of the data value.
org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyFactoryPackage	This package contains classes and exceptions from the DynAnyFactory interface of the DynamicAny module specified in the OMG The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification, http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/99-10-07, section 9.2.2.
org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAnyPackage	This package contains classes and exceptions from the DynAny interface of the DynamicAny module specified in the OMG The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification, http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/99-10-07, section 9.2.
org.omg.IOP	This package contains the IOP module specified in the OMG document The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification, http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/99-10-07, section 13.6.
org.omg.IOP.CodecFactoryPackage	This package contains the exceptions specified in the IOP::CodeFactory interface (as part of the Portable Interceptors spec).
org.omg.IOP.CodecPackage	This package is generated from the IOP::Codec IDL interface definition.
org.omg.Messaging	This package contains the Messaging module specified in the OMG CORBA Messaging specification, http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/99-10-07.
org.omg.PortableInterceptor	Provides a mechanism to register ORB hooks through which ORB services can intercept the normal flow of execution of the ORB.
org.omg.PortableInterceptor.ORBInitInfoPackage	This package contains the exceptions and typedefs from the ORBInitInfo local interface of the PortableInterceptor module specified in the OMG Portable Interceptor specification, http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/2000-08-06, section 21.7.2.
org.omg.PortableServer	Provides classes and interfaces for making the server side of your applications portable across multivendor ORBs.
org.omg.PortableServer.CurrentPackage	Provides method implementations with access to the identity of the object on which the method was invoked.
org.omg.PortableServer.POAManagerPackage	Encapsulates the processing state of the POAs it is associated with.
org.omg.PortableServer.POAPackage	Allows programmers to construct object implementations that are portable between different ORB products.
org.omg.PortableServer.portable	Provides classes and interfaces for making the server side of your applications portable across multivendor ORBs.
org.omg.stub.java.rmi	Contains RMI-IIOP Stubs for the Remote types that occur in the java.rmi package.
org.w3c.dom	Provides the interfaces for the Document Object Model (DOM) which is a component API of the Java API for XML Processing.
org.w3c.dom.bootstrap
org.w3c.dom.events
org.w3c.dom.ls
org.xml.sax	This package provides the core SAX APIs.
org.xml.sax.ext	This package contains interfaces to SAX2 facilities that conformant SAX drivers won't necessarily support.
org.xml.sax.helpers	This package contains "helper" classes, including support for bootstrapping SAX-based applications.

Uses of String in java.applet

Methods in java.applet that return String

String	Applet.getAppletInfo() Returns information about this applet.
String	AppletStub.getParameter(String name) Returns the value of the named parameter in the HTML tag.
String	Applet.getParameter(String name) Returns the value of the named parameter in the HTML tag.
String[][]	Applet.getParameterInfo() Returns information about the parameters that are understood by this applet.

Methods in java.applet that return types with arguments of type String

Iterator<String>

AppletContext.getStreamKeys() Finds all the keys of the streams in this applet context.

Methods in java.applet with parameters of type String

Applet	AppletContext.getApplet(String name) Finds and returns the applet in the document represented by this applet context with the given name.
AudioClip	Applet.getAudioClip(URL url, String name) Returns the AudioClip object specified by the URL and name arguments.
Image	Applet.getImage(URL url, String name) Returns an Image object that can then be painted on the screen.
String	AppletStub.getParameter(String name) Returns the value of the named parameter in the HTML tag.
String	Applet.getParameter(String name) Returns the value of the named parameter in the HTML tag.
InputStream	AppletContext.getStream(String key) Returns the stream to which specified key is associated within this applet context.
void	Applet.play(URL url, String name) Plays the audio clip given the URL and a specifier that is relative to it.
void	AppletContext.setStream(String key, InputStream stream) Associates the specified stream with the specified key in this applet context.
void	AppletContext.showDocument(URL url, String target) Requests that the browser or applet viewer show the Web page indicated by the url argument.
void	AppletContext.showStatus(String status) Requests that the argument string be displayed in the "status window".
void	Applet.showStatus(String msg) Requests that the argument string be displayed in the "status window".

Uses of String in java.awt

Fields in java.awt declared as String

static String	BorderLayout.AFTER_LAST_LINE Synonym for PAGE_END.
static String	BorderLayout.AFTER_LINE_ENDS Synonym for LINE_END.
static String	BorderLayout.BEFORE_FIRST_LINE Synonym for PAGE_START.
static String	BorderLayout.BEFORE_LINE_BEGINS Synonym for LINE_START.
static String	BorderLayout.CENTER The center layout constraint (middle of container).
static String	Font.DIALOG A String constant for the canonical family name of the logical font "Dialog".
static String	Font.DIALOG_INPUT A String constant for the canonical family name of the logical font "DialogInput".
static String	BorderLayout.EAST The east layout constraint (right side of container).
static String	BorderLayout.LINE_END The component goes at the end of the line direction for the layout.
static String	BorderLayout.LINE_START The component goes at the beginning of the line direction for the layout.
static String	Font.MONOSPACED A String constant for the canonical family name of the logical font "Monospaced".
protected String	Font.name The logical name of this Font, as passed to the constructor.
protected String	Cursor.name The user-visible name of the cursor.
static String	BorderLayout.NORTH The north layout constraint (top of container).
static String	BorderLayout.PAGE_END The component comes after the last line of the layout's content.
static String	BorderLayout.PAGE_START The component comes before the first line of the layout's content.
static String	Font.SANS_SERIF A String constant for the canonical family name of the logical font "SansSerif".
static String	Font.SERIF A String constant for the canonical family name of the logical font "Serif".
static String	BorderLayout.SOUTH The south layout constraint (bottom of container).
static String	BorderLayout.WEST The west layout constraint (left side of container).

Fields in java.awt with type parameters of type String

protected Map<String,Object>

Toolkit.desktopProperties

Methods in java.awt that return String

String	MenuItem.AccessibleAWTMenuItem.getAccessibleActionDescription(int i) Return a description of the specified action of the object.
String	Choice.AccessibleAWTChoice.getAccessibleActionDescription(int i) Returns a description of the specified action of the object.
String	CheckboxMenuItem.AccessibleAWTCheckboxMenuItem.getAccessibleActionDescription(int i) Return a description of the specified action of the object.
String	Checkbox.AccessibleAWTCheckbox.getAccessibleActionDescription(int i) Return a description of the specified action of the object.
String	Button.AccessibleAWTButton.getAccessibleActionDescription(int i) Return a description of the specified action of the object.
String	MenuComponent.AccessibleAWTMenuComponent.getAccessibleDescription() Gets the accessible description of this object.
String	Component.AccessibleAWTComponent.getAccessibleDescription() Gets the accessible description of this object.
String	MenuItem.AccessibleAWTMenuItem.getAccessibleName() Get the accessible name of this object.
String	MenuComponent.AccessibleAWTMenuComponent.getAccessibleName() Gets the accessible name of this object.
String	Label.AccessibleAWTLabel.getAccessibleName() Get the accessible name of this object.
String	Component.AccessibleAWTComponent.getAccessibleName() Gets the accessible name of this object.
String	Button.AccessibleAWTButton.getAccessibleName() Get the accessible name of this object.
String	TrayIcon.getActionCommand() Returns the command name of the action event fired by this tray icon.
String	MenuItem.getActionCommand() Gets the command name of the action event that is fired by this menu item.
String	Button.getActionCommand() Returns the command name of the action event fired by this button.
String	TextComponent.AccessibleAWTTextComponent.getAfterIndex(int part, int index) Returns the String after a given index.
String	TextComponent.AccessibleAWTTextComponent.getAtIndex(int part, int index) Returns the String at a given index.
abstract String[]	GraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames() Returns an array containing the names of all font families in this GraphicsEnvironment localized for the default locale, as returned by Locale.getDefault().
abstract String[]	GraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames(Locale l) Returns an array containing the names of all font families in this GraphicsEnvironment localized for the specified locale.
String	TextComponent.AccessibleAWTTextComponent.getBeforeIndex(int part, int index) Returns the String before a given index.
String	FileDialog.getDirectory() Gets the directory of this file dialog.
String	Font.getFamily() Returns the family name of this Font.
String	Font.getFamily(Locale l) Returns the family name of this Font, localized for the specified locale.
String	FileDialog.getFile() Gets the selected file of this file dialog.
String	JobAttributes.getFileName() Specifies the file name for the output file for jobs using these attributes.
abstract String[]	Toolkit.getFontList() Deprecated. see GraphicsEnvironment.getAvailableFontFamilyNames()
String	Font.getFontName() Returns the font face name of this Font.
String	Font.getFontName(Locale l) Returns the font face name of the Font, localized for the specified locale.
abstract String	GraphicsDevice.getIDstring() Returns the identification string associated with this GraphicsDevice.
String	List.getItem(int index) Gets the item associated with the specified index.
String	Choice.getItem(int index) Gets the string at the specified index in this Choice menu.
String[]	List.getItems() Gets the items in the list.
String	MenuItem.getLabel() Gets the label for this menu item.
String	Checkbox.getLabel() Gets the label of this check box.
String	Button.getLabel() Gets the label of this button.
String	HeadlessException.getMessage()
String	MenuComponent.getName() Gets the name of the menu component.
String	Font.getName() Returns the logical name of this Font.
String	Cursor.getName() Returns the name of this cursor.
String	Component.getName() Gets the name of the component.
String	JobAttributes.getPrinter() Returns the destination printer for jobs using these attributes.
static String	Toolkit.getProperty(String key, String defaultValue) Gets a property with the specified key and default.
String	Font.getPSName() Returns the postscript name of this Font.
String	List.getSelectedItem() Gets the selected item on this scrolling list.
String	Choice.getSelectedItem() Gets a representation of the current choice as a string.
String[]	List.getSelectedItems() Gets the selected items on this scrolling list.
String	TextComponent.getSelectedText() Returns the selected text from the text that is presented by this text component.
String	TextComponent.AccessibleAWTTextComponent.getSelectedText() Returns the portion of the text that is selected.
String	TextComponent.getText() Returns the text that is presented by this text component.
String	Label.getText() Gets the text of this label.
String	Frame.getTitle() Gets the title of the frame.
String	Dialog.getTitle() Gets the title of the dialog.
String	TrayIcon.getToolTip() Returns the tooltip string associated with this TrayIcon.
String	Window.getWarningString() Gets the warning string that is displayed with this window.
protected String	TextField.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this TextField.
protected String	TextComponent.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this TextComponent.
protected String	TextArea.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this TextArea.
protected String	Scrollbar.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Scrollbar.
String	ScrollPaneAdjustable.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this scrollbar.
String	ScrollPane.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this ScrollPane.
protected String	MenuShortcut.paramString() Returns the parameter string representing the state of this MenuShortcut.
String	MenuItem.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this MenuItem.
protected String	MenuComponent.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this MenuComponent.
String	Menu.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Menu.
protected String	List.paramString() Returns the parameter string representing the state of this scrolling list.
protected String	Label.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Label.
protected String	Frame.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Frame.
protected String	FileDialog.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this FileDialog window.
protected String	Event.paramString() NOTE: The Event class is obsolete and is available only for backwards compatilibility.
protected String	Dialog.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this dialog.
protected String	Container.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Container.
protected String	Component.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this component.
protected String	Choice.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Choice menu.
String	CheckboxMenuItem.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this CheckBoxMenuItem.
protected String	Checkbox.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Checkbox.
protected String	Button.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Button.
String	AWTEvent.paramString() Returns a string representing the state of this Event.
String	SystemColor.toString() Returns a string representation of this Color's values.
String	ScrollPaneAdjustable.toString() Returns a string representation of this scrollbar and its values.
String	Robot.toString() Returns a string representation of this Robot.
String	RenderingHints.toString() Returns a rather long string representation of the hashmap which contains the mappings of keys to values for this RenderingHints object.
String	Rectangle.toString() Returns a String representing this Rectangle and its values.
String	Point.toString() Returns a string representation of this point and its location in the (x,y) coordinate space.
String	PageAttributes.toString() Returns a string representation of this PageAttributes.
String	MenuShortcut.toString() Returns an internationalized description of the MenuShortcut.
String	MenuComponent.toString() Returns a representation of this menu component as a string.
String	JobAttributes.toString() Returns a string representation of this JobAttributes.
String	Insets.toString() Returns a string representation of this Insets object.
String	GridLayout.toString() Returns the string representation of this grid layout's values.
String	GridBagLayout.toString() Returns a string representation of this grid bag layout's values.
String	Graphics.toString() Returns a String object representing this Graphics object's value.
String	FontMetrics.toString() Returns a representation of this FontMetrics object's values as a String.
String	Font.toString() Converts this Font object to a String representation.
String	FlowLayout.toString() Returns a string representation of this FlowLayout object and its values.
String	Event.toString() NOTE: The Event class is obsolete and is available only for backwards compatilibility.
String	Dimension.toString() Returns a string representation of the values of this Dimension object's height and width fields.
String	Cursor.toString() Returns a string representation of this cursor.
String	Component.toString() Returns a string representation of this component and its values.
String	Color.toString() Returns a string representation of this Color.
String	CheckboxGroup.toString() Returns a string representation of this check box group, including the value of its current selection.
String	CardLayout.toString() Returns a string representation of the state of this card layout.
String	BorderLayout.toString() Returns a string representation of the state of this border layout.
String	AWTKeyStroke.toString() Returns a string that displays and identifies this object's properties.
String	AWTEvent.toString() Returns a String representation of this object.

Methods in java.awt with parameters of type String

void	Menu.add(String label) Adds an item with the specified label to this menu.
void	List.add(String item) Adds the specified item to the end of scrolling list.
void	Choice.add(String item) Adds an item to this Choice menu.
Component	Container.add(String name, Component comp) Adds the specified component to this container.
void	List.add(String item, int index) Adds the specified item to the the scrolling list at the position indicated by the index.
void	List.addItem(String item) Deprecated. replaced by add(String).
void	Choice.addItem(String item) Obsolete as of Java 2 platform v1.1.
void	List.addItem(String item, int index) Deprecated. replaced by add(String, int).
void	LayoutManager.addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) If the layout manager uses a per-component string, adds the component comp to the layout, associating it with the string specified by name.
void	GridLayout.addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) Adds the specified component with the specified name to the layout.
void	GridBagLayout.addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) Has no effect, since this layout manager does not use a per-component string.
void	FlowLayout.addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) Adds the specified component to the layout.
void	CardLayout.addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) Deprecated. replaced by addLayoutComponent(Component, Object).
void	BorderLayout.addLayoutComponent(String name, Component comp) Deprecated. replaced by addLayoutComponent(Component, Object).
void	Window.addPropertyChangeListener(String propertyName,