22.3. Windows: Additional Notes
In this section, we discuss several important JFrame issues. A JFrame is a window with a title bar and a border. Class JFrame is a subclass of java.awt.Frame (which is a subclass of java.awt.Window). As such, JFrame is one of the few Swing GUI components that is not a lightweight GUI component. When you display a window from a Java program, the window is provided by the local platform’s windowing toolkit, and therefore the window will look like every other window displayed on that platform. When a Java application executes on a Macintosh and displays a window, the window’s title bar and borders will look like those of other Macintosh applications. When a Java application executes on a Microsoft Windows system ...
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