Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT)

Documentation Contents

The Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) supports Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming. AWT features include:

• a set of native user interface components
• a robust event-handling model
• graphics and imaging tools, including shape, color, and font classes
• layout managers, for flexible window layouts that don't depend on a particular window size or screen resolution
• data transfer classes, for cut-and-paste through the native platform clipboard

The Swing classes are built on top of the AWT architecture.

API Specification

• API Reference
• Focus Model Specification

Tutorials and Programmer's Guides

• The Swing Tutorial touches on parts of the AWT that support the Swing architecture:
  • Introduction to Event Listeners
  • Top-Level Containers and the Containment Hierarchy
  • Laying out Components in a Container
• Full-Screen Exclusive Mode API

API Enhancements

• AWT Enhancements in the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0
• AWT Enhancements in the Java 2 SDK, v1.4

More Information

• XAWT
• AWT Native Interface
• Drag and Drop and Data Transfer
• Java 2D Graphics and Imaging

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