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    Title
    Dedication
    Contents at a Glance
    Contents
    About the Authors
    About the Technical Reviewers
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java 7
    Chapter 2: Strings
    Chapter 3: Numbers and Dates
    Chapter 4: Data Structures, Conditionals, and Iteration
    Chapter 5: Input and Output
    Chapter 6: Exceptions and Logging
    Chapter 7: Object-Oriented Java
    Chapter 8: Concurrency
    Chapter 9: Debugging and Unit Testing
    Chapter 10: Unicode, Internationalization, and Currency Codes
    Chapter 11: Working with Databases
    Chapter 12: Java 2D Graphics
    Chapter 13: Java3D
    Chapter 14: Swing API
    14-1. Creating a GUI
    14-2. Running a Swing Application
    14-3. Adding Components to a GUI
    14-4. Laying Out GUI Components
    14-5. Generating Events with Buttons
    14-6. Refreshing a User Interface
    14-7. Submitting Form Values to a Database
    14-8. Making a Multi-Window Program
    14-9. Adding a Menu to an Application
    14-10. Adding Tabs to a Form
    14-11. Drawing on a Canvas
    14-12. Generating and Laying Out Icons
    14-13. Designing and Manipulating Borders
    14-14. Creating Text Components
    14-15. Associating Action Objects with Editing Commands
    14-16. Creating Keyboard Shortcuts
    14-17. Creating a Document
    14-18. Developing a Dialog Box
    14-19. Associating Listeners with a Document
    14-20. Formatting GUI Applications with HTML
    14-21. Changing the Look and Feel of a GUI
    14-22. Distributing a Swing Application
    14-23. Creating an Animation
    14-24. Working with the JLayer Component
    14-25. Adding Printing Support to Swing Components
    Chapter 15: JavaFX Fundamentals
    Chapter 16: Graphics with JavaFX
    Chapter 17: Media with JavaFX
    Chapter 18: Working with Servlets and Applets
    Chapter 19: Intro to Android
    Chapter 20: JavaFX on the Web
    Chapter 21: E-mail
    Chapter 22: XML Processing
    Chapter 23: Networking
    Index
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    Chapter 14: Swing API

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    Swing API

    The Java Swing API is a GUI toolkit for developers to build client-side, cross-platform desktop applications. Swing is based on the Model View Controller (MVC) architectural framework pattern.

    Long before the Swing API, the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) alone provided an abstraction layer over the native platform to enable standard windowing functionality. With the creation of Swing, a new dimension was added that allows greater cross-platform capabilities. Some of these capabilities include pluggable look and feel, advanced components (not found in AWT), and keyboard event bindings. Swing goes beyond AWT's abilities by rendering lightweight components that are platform independent. Swing and its foundational toolkit AWT are still heavily used.


      

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