Description

The Java Foundation Classes are a group of features whose implementation began with JDK 1.1 and is continued in JDK 1.2, one of the most significant parts of which, and the main concern of this book, is the Swing component set. The Swing components are all graphical user interface controls that replace most of the platform-native components provided by the JDK 1.0 and JDK 1.1 AWT. The best way to understand what the Swing components are and how they will affect the development of Java applications is to look at how the Swing project came about and at the problems with the AWT that Swing is intended to address