Abstract Window Toolkit

Characteristics
- Means by which GUIs are implemented in Java
- Development of Windows Platform Independent GUIs.
  - i.e. GUIs on Virtual Machine
- Designed to be event-driven
Two Sets of Classes
- Components
  - Basic Building Blocks
- Containers
  - Generic Holder of Other Components
- Functionality
  - Animation, Sound
  - Eventually complete Multimedia
  - Virtual Reality via VRML in the future

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