Day 14. Developing Swing Applications
The first exposure many people have to the Java programming language is applets—small, security-restricted Java programs that run on web pages. Java Web Start, a protocol for downloading and running Java programs, makes it possible to launch applications from a web page as if they were applets.
Today, you learn how to create these web-launched Java programs as you explore the following topics:
• How to install and run Java applications in a web browser
• How to publish your application’s files and deploy it
• How Swing applications can run into performance slowdowns on time-consuming tasks
• How to address these problems using SwingWorker, a class that performs Swing work in its own thread
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