Java GUI Development: The Authoritative Solution

Chapter 2. Introducing the Java Foundation Classes

IN THIS CHAPTER

• The Big Picture

• The Abstract Windowing Toolkit

• Platform-Independence

• AWT Components

• The AWT Component Class

• AWT Containers

• Layout Managers

• The Java Foundation Classes

• Lightweight Components

• Swing's Pluggable Look-and-Feel

• The Delegation Event Model

• The JFC Containment Model

• The JFC and Swing Class Hierarchies

• The JFC Model Architecture

This chapter introduces the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). You will learn the concepts and architectural features around which the platform was designed and built. The chapter first introduces general concepts related to all Java GUI programming. This includes concepts upon which the JFC is built.

The Big Picture

The Java Foundation Classes (JFC) are a set of APIs ...