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Foil 15 AWT: The Swing Set

From Overview of JDK Version 1.1 Extensions CPS616 -- Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken


This is a whole set of GUI components being implemented using the Lightweight UI Framework.
  • includes rewriting in Java all the original components
  • will add a rich set of higher-level components such as tree viewers, rich text viewers, HTML plug-in, and various standard dialog boxes such as color chooser, file chooser, date chooser
Makes the "look and feel" of components "pluggable" to allow developers to customize look and feel of applications.
Swing Set is part of the newly announce Java Foundation Classes (JFC) which is a large collection of classes designed for building visual applications in Java. Some ideas are based on Netscape's Internet Foundation Classes toolkit. Sunsoft, Netscape, IBM, Symantec and Lighthouse Design are collaborating.



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