Lesson: A Brief Introduction to the Swing Package
This lesson gives you a brief introduction to the capabilities of the
Java SE platform that pertain to developing programs with graphical
user interfaces (GUIs). Next, it shows you a demo (sample code provided)
that showcases many of these features.
The next lesson,
Getting Started discusses these capabilities in more detail.
The Swing toolkit, shipped as part of the Java SE platform,
provides a rich set of GUI components.
But Swing offers much more functionality than a collection of
standard widgets. This section takes a look at Swing's rich
functionality.
A rich multi-class Swing application, PasswordStore, is presented. The
source code is provided as a reference to the user.
