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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:16:57 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Gregory D Lewis <glewis@maths.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        wadia77@yahoo.com (wadia mohamed al-zantuti), freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: java and XFree86 ?
Message-ID:  <199907241716.LAA13793@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907241655.CAA26319@staff.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
References:  <19990724164649.18953.rocketmail@web209.mail.yahoo.com> <199907241655.CAA26319@staff.maths.adelaide.edu.au>

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> > Q)What is the meanning of AWT component ?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  AWT = Abstract Window Toolkit
> (I think :) and is a graphical toolkit for Java which has essentially
> been superseded by the Swing toolkit.

Close, but not quite.  AWT is the 'base' functionality for GUI
functionality.  However, large portions of Swing are based upon the AWT
(extend AWT components), so Swing is more like a superset of the AWT
functionality, at least in its current unix instantiations.




Nate


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