Swing Features
Most of the components and containers you learned about yesterday were Swing versions of classes that were part of the Abstract Windowing Toolkit, the original Java package for graphical user interface programming.
Swing offers many features that are completely new, including a definable look and feel, keyboard mnemonics, ToolTips, and standard dialog boxes.
Setting the Look and Feel
One of the more unusual features in Swing is the ability to define the look and feel of components—the way that the buttons, labels, and other elements of a graphical user interface are rendered onscreen.
Management of look and feel is handled by a user interface manager class in the javax.swing package, UIManager. The choices for look and feel vary ...
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