SimpleExample is the "Hello, world" of the Swing release. It brings up a window displaying a regular button followed by three radio buttons. The regular button does nothing; it's there for looks alone. The other three buttons let you choose the look and feel (L&F) that SimpleExample uses. To run the SimpleExample demo on 1.2 : java -jar SimpleExample.jar To run the SimpleExample demo on 1.1.x on Solaris: setenv SWING_HOME setenv JAVA_HOME runnit To run the SimpleExample demo on 1.1.x on win32: set CLASSPATH=\lib\classes.zip set SWING_HOME= runnit