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Java: The Complete Reference, Twelfth Edition, 12th Edition
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Java: The Complete Reference, Twelfth Edition, 12th Edition

by Herbert Schildt
November 2021
Intermediate to advanced
1280 pages
34h 57m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 32

Introducing Swing

In Part II, you saw how to build very simple user interfaces with the AWT classes. Although the AWT is still a crucial part of Java, its component set is no longer widely used to create graphical user interfaces. Today, programmers typically use Swing for this purpose. Swing is a framework that provides more powerful and flexible GUI components than does the AWT. As a result, it is the GUI that has been widely used by Java programmers for more than two decades.

Coverage of Swing is divided between three chapters. This chapter introduces Swing. It begins by describing Swing’s core concepts. It then presents a simple example that shows the general form of a Swing program. This is followed by an example that uses event ...

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