Just Java™ 2, Fifth Edition

Chapter 22. Containers, Layouts, and AWT Loose Ends

• Pluggable Look and Feel

• All About Containers

• Layout In A Container

• Tying Up the Loose Ends

• Exercises

• Some Light Relief—Sky View Cafe: A High Quality Applet

We’re now two-thirds of the way through our tour of JFC and Swing. This chapter completes the topic by presenting some containers and an explanation of how you use them to lay out your components neatly on the screen. We give some information on a couple of topics that are related to the window system generally. And we present a practical example showing how easy it is to make mistakes in threaded code.

Pluggable Look and Feel

Let’s start off the chapter ...