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Article #10670Re: Swing?
From: Paul Furbacher [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00
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Arnold Rico wrote: > Can someone explain to me in a nutshell what swing is? It's JavaSoft's second attempt to create a cross-platform GUI for Java. The AWT was the first, thrown together very quickly in order to meet the marketing deadline of getting Java out to the masses. As a second attempt, it improves upon the first. Yet, with more time and much more money, it has become unwieldly and is rife with design problems. Swing is more formally known as JFC, the Java Foundation Classes. Its fundamental design concept is based on a modified "Model-View- Controller" scheme. You can read about all this at: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/what_is_swing/what_is_swing.html Paul Furbacher (TeamB)
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