Java Glossary : AWT

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AWT
Abstract Windowing Toolkit. Unix people will tell you it means Another Widget Toolkit. It is a set of classes that let you write platform independent Java code that will hook into the native GUI systems on many different platforms.

AWT vs Swing

Which should you use, AWT or Swing?

Equivalent Components in AWT and Swing
Applet JApplet
Button JButton
Canvas JPanel
Checkbox JCheckBox
or JRadioButton
Choice JComboBox
Color Color
none JColorChooser
Component JComponent
Container Container
Dialog JDialog or JOptionPane
FileDialog JFileChooser
none JFormattedTextField
Frame JFrame
Label JLabel
List JList + JScrollPane
LayoutManager LayoutManager
Menu JMenu
Panel JPanel
ScrollPane JScrollPane
none JSlider
none JSpinner
TextArea JTextArea
TextField JTextField
Window JWindow


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