AWT & SWING IN JAVA

ABSTRACT WINDOWS TOOLKITS  à AWT is a powerful concept in JAVA. It is basically used to  develop for the building of GUI application. à AWT is platform dependent. That means .class file after  the program compilation is platform independent but the look of your  GUI application is platform dependent. àHierarchy of AWT classes:- àA class library is provided by the Java programming language  which is known as Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). It contains  several graphical component of GUI which can be added and  positioned based on layout manager. àIn Java for the awt component awt package import as import java.awt.*;

SWING à Swing components facilitate efficient graphical user interface  (GUI) development. àIt provides collection of lightweight visual components  with replacement for the heavyweight AWT components  as well as complex user-interface components. àThe entire Swing Component name begins with “J” so  JComponent class is the root of the visual component class  hierarchy in the JFC for Swing. àIn Java for the swing component swing package import as import javax.swing.*; àHierarchy of Swing classes:-