Swing is a graphics library for Java. Swing is one part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). Swing includes graphical user interface (GUI) widgets such as text boxes, buttons, split-panes, and tables. The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is probably the graphics library that is most similar to Swing. Swing is originally from Sun Microsystems. SWT is originally from IBM.
History
Swing supersedes and extends the Java AWT library.
See also
References
- Matthew Robinson: Swing, Manning, ISBN 1-930110-88-X