Java Swing components

Swing components are basic building blocks of an application. Swing has a wide range of various components, including buttons, check boxes, sliders, and list boxes . In this part of the Swing tutorial, we will present JButton , JLabel , JTextField , and JPasswordField .

A component is an object having a graphical representation that can be displayed on the screen and that can interact with the user . Examples of components are the buttons, checkboxes, and scrollbars of a typical graphical user interface.

Unlike AWT, Java Swing provides platform-independent and lightweight components. The javax. swing package provides classes for java swing API such as JButton, JTextField, JTextArea, JRadioButton, JCheckbox, JMenu, JColorChooser etc.

Unlike AWT, Java Swing provides platform-independent and lightweight components. The javax. swing package provides classes for java swing API such as JButton, JTextField, JTextArea, JRadioButton, JCheckbox, JMenu, JColorChooser etc.