Trail: Graphical User Interfaces
How do you write a program in the Java programming language with
a graphical user interface? The short answer — the Swing toolkit!
This trail gives you a brief overview of the graphical capabilities of
the core Java platform with a special focus on Swing.
This trail, part of The Java Tutorial, does not show
how to implement these features.
For a "how-to" on using the Swing toolkit, see
Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing.
A Brief Introduction to Swing
provides a high-level table of the capabilities provided by
the Swing toolkit and other Java Foundation Classes.
A demo is provided that showcases many of these capabilities.
Swing Features explains the basic features of
Swing, such as drag and drop, internationalization, pluggable
look and feel, and provides a visual list of the components
available in the Swing toolkit.
