CHAPTER 30Introducing Swing
In Part II, you saw how to build user interfaces with the AWT classes. Although the AWT is still a crucial part of Java, its component set is no longer widely used to create graphical user interfaces. Today, most programmers use Swing for this purpose. Swing is a set of classes that provides more powerful and flexible GUI components than does the AWT. Simply put, Swing provides the look and feel of the modern Java GUI.
Coverage of Swing is divided between two chapters. This chapter introduces Swing. It begins by describing Swing’s core concepts. It then shows the general form of a Swing program, including both applications and applets. It concludes by explaining how painting is accomplished in Swing. The following ...
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