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Swing

Swing is a newer GUI component framework for Java. It provides Java implementations of the components in the AWT and adds a number of more sophisticated GUI components, such as tree views and list boxes. For the basic components, Swing implementations have the same name as the AWT component with a J prefix and a different package structure, for example, java.awt.Button becomes javax.swing.JButton in Swing.

Swing GUIs do not normally perform as quickly as AWT GUIs, but have a richer set of controls and have a pluggable look-and-feel.

More information about Swing can be found at:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/swing/

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