Swing vs. AWT
There are actually two sets of Java GUI components. In Java’s early days, GUIs were built with components from the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) in package java.awt. These look like the native GUI components of the platform on which a Java program executes. For example, a Button object displayed in a Java program running on Microsoft Windows looks like those in other Windows applications. On Apple Mac OS X, the Button looks like those in other Mac applications. Sometimes, even the manner in which a user can interact with an AWT component differs between platforms. The component’s appearance and the way in which the user interacts with it are known as its look-and-feel.
Look-and-Feel Observation 12.5
Swing GUI components allow ...
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