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The AWT(Abstract Windowing Toolkit)

• How Java implements a platform-independent GUI (Graphical User Interface) on different platforms.

• API to the JVM’s “virtual” user interface

• Java 1.0 & 1.1 GUIs were quite bland because of the need to be platform-independent.

• Related: Java 1.2’s “Swing” classes

create fully-functional GUIs for Java

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