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Foil 16 AWT: Data Transfer "Drag and Drop"

From Overview of JDK Version 1.1 Extensions CPS616 -- Information Track of CPS -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken
Design work is going on to supply data transfer capability for Java objects, on top of which transfer-protocols can be built. The two API's are
  • Clipboard
  • Drag and Drop: DragSouce and DropTarget
A key issue is data format of objects to be transferred - Java is putting in a set of data "flavors" based on MIME types to represent objects.

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