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Because AWT must serve the lowest common denominator, writing Java’s powerful GUI (graphical user interface) in 100 percent Java made sense: it would be implemented entirely as lightweight AWT ...

Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck. “When Java technology was born, it looked around, saw a Web browser and thought it was an applet,” he jokes. His ...

The second system, Swing, made its debut in Java 1.2. Figure 2 is a picture of the gcc-java-compiled Swing application shown in Listing 3. Listing 3 can be compiled with gcj --main=ExampleSwing -o ...

Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

Developers have a choice of an abstract window toolkit (AWT) or standard widget toolkit (SWT) when using the company's PERC Java solution. The graphic libraries are available for a range of ...