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Abstract Windowing Toolkit

The Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) is Java's platform-independent windowing[?], graphics[?], and user-interface widget toolkit. The AWT is part of the Java Foundation Classes[?] (JFC) - the standard API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for a Java program.

Compare: SWING[?].

External Links

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/awt/ - AWT homepage

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