CHAPTER 16Layout Managers
Mad world! mad kings!mad composition!
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616),King John (II, i, 561)
One of the strengths and principal objectives of the Java language is platform independence—the ability of applications built with Java to be deployed to diverse operating systems and platforms. One manifestation of platform independence is in the area of user interface design. When applications are deployed on different platforms, the windows and the objects within them are not always rendered in the same size and position. In addition, users may resize the windows in an application to match their preferences. Developers grapple with this problem in many programming languages and often develop their own solutions. However, ...
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