Lesson: Getting Started with Swing
Examples Index
This lesson gives you a brief introduction to using the Java Foundation
Classes (JFC) and Swing. After telling you about JFC and Swing,
it helps you get the necessary software and walks you through how to
compile and run a program that uses the Swing packages.
The following lesson,
Learning Swing with the NetBeans IDE, will build on these first steps to help you create several
progressively more complex examples. For now, let's start with the basics.
This section gives you an overview of the JFC and Swing.
This section gives you detailed instructions on where to obtain
the latest JDK and how to
create, compile and run a program that uses Swing components.
