From owner-freebsd-java Sat Jul 24 10:18:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF6B61513D for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA27813; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:16:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA13793; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:16:57 -0600 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:16:57 -0600 Message-Id: <199907241716.LAA13793@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Gregory D Lewis Cc: wadia77@yahoo.com (wadia mohamed al-zantuti), freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: java and XFree86 ? 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> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 been superseded by the Swing toolkit.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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message