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Chapter 1. Introduction > Swing History
Swing History
In order to understand Swing, it is first necessary to understand the infrastructure upon which it is based, the Abstract Window Toolkit, or AWT.
Java took off faster than anyone could have imagined, and the most visible of the Java APIs—the AWT—was suddenly thrust into the limelight. Unfortunately, the original AWT was ill prepared for such a fate.
