11 Creating windows and applets (Part 1)

AWT -- Abstract Window Toolkit

The original design goal of the graphical user interface library in Java 1.0 was to allow the programer to build a GUI that looks good in all platforms.

Java 1.1 added new event model in OO style and introducted Java Beans. Java 1.2 adds JFC to take the place of AWT. The GUI portion of JFC is called Swing.

One of Java's primary design goals is to ceate applets, which are little programs that run inside a Web browser. Programming within a applet is restricted.