Encyclopedia > AWT

Article Content

Abstract Windowing Toolkit

Redirected from AWT

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

This article was originally based on material from FOLDOC, used with permission. Update as needed.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz

... of Hegel and Schleiermacher. After holding the chair of philosophy at Halle for two years, he became, in 1833, professor at the university of Königsberg[?], wher ...