C H A P T E R 7
Creating and Enriching Graphical User Interfaces
The applications presented in previous chapters featured Standard I/O-based user interfaces. Although these simple character-oriented user interfaces are convenient for demonstrating Java features or for interacting with small utility applications (e.g., Chapter 3's StubFinder application), they are inadequate for more sophisticated needs, such as filling out forms or viewing HTML pages. However, Java also provides APIs that let you create and enrich more sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) is Java's original GUI-oriented API. After introducing AWT to Java, Sun Microsystems introduced Java Foundation Classes (JFC) as an AWT superset with ...
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