AWT stands for Abstract Window Toolkit. The toolkit is defi ned within the java.awt package. It contains
all of the classes for creating user interfaces like Buttons, Labels, TextBox, Lists, etc., and for painting
graphics and images. The AWT provides many classes for programmers to use. It is the connection between
an application and the native GUI. The AWT hides the system from the underlying details of the GUI,
the application will be running on and thus is at very high level of the abstraction. All of the classes are
arranged in a meaningful hierarchy so that many of the features of the top-most classes can be ...
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