What Next?

Congratulations! If you have read and worked through the preceding 15 chapters, then you can call yourself a Java programmer. Of course, there are still many, many things to learn about Java, its libraries, and its subsystems, but you now have a solid foundation upon which you can build your knowledge and expertise.

Here are a few of the topics that you will want to learn more about:

Image Swing. Continue exploring Swing. It is an important part of Java programming.

Image The AWT, which provides the foundation for Swing.

Event handling. Although ...

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