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Description
| Interface Summary | |
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| NodeChangeListener | A listener for receiving preference node change events. |
| PreferenceChangeListener | A listener for receiving preference change events. |
| PreferencesFactory | A factory object that generates Preferences objects. |
| Class Summary | |
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| AbstractPreferences | This class provides a skeletal implementation of the Preferences
class, greatly easing the task of implementing it. |
| NodeChangeEvent | An event emitted by a Preferences node to indicate that a child of that node has been added or removed. |
| PreferenceChangeEvent | An event emitted by a Preferences node to indicate that a preference has been added, removed or has had its value changed. |
| Preferences | A node in a hierarchical collection of preference data. |
| Exception Summary | |
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| BackingStoreException | Thrown to indicate that a preferences operation could not complete because of a failure in the backing store, or a failure to contact the backing store. |
| InvalidPreferencesFormatException | Thrown to indicate that an operation could not complete because
the input did not conform to the appropriate XML document type
for a collection of preferences, as per the Preferences
specification. |
This package allows applications to store and retrieve user and system preference and configuration data. This data is stored persistently in an implementation-dependent backing store. There are two separate trees of preference nodes, one for user preferences and one for system preferences.
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