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}
window
}
See also
});
}
• Abstract Window Toolkit
• Layout manager
// program won't exit when clicking close button
// (The default is HIDE_ON_CLOSE, which just makes the
// invisible, and thus doesn't exit the app)
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
// Set the visibility as true, thereby displaying it
f.setVisible(true);
• SwingLabs - Extensions to Swing that might be included in Swing in the future
• Standard Widget Toolkit A third party competing widget toolkit resembling the Abstract Window Toolkit in
function.
References
• Matthew Robinson, Pavel Vorobiev: Swing, Second Edition, Manning, ISBN 1-930110-88-X
• David M. Geary: Graphic Java 2, Volume 2: Swing, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-079667-0
• John Zukowski: The Definitive Guide to Java Swing, Third Edition, Apress, ISBN 1-590-59447-9
• James Elliott, Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, David Wood, Brian Cole: Java Swing, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00408-7
• Kathy Walrath, Mary Campione, Alison Huml, Sharon Zakhour: The JFC Swing Tutorial: A Guide to
Constructing GUIs, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 0-201-91467-0
• Joshua Marinacci, Chris Adamson: Swing Hacks, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00907-0
External links
• The Swing API documentation [7]
• The Swing architecture [4]
References
[1] Swing as MVC (http:/ / java. sun. com/ products/ jfc/ tsc/ articles/ architecture/ )
[2] Swing vs. SWT Performance - Have a Look at the Call Stacks (http:/ / www. javalobby. org/ java/ forums/ t65168. html)
[3] Igor, Križnar (2005-05-10). "SWT Vs. Swing Performance Comparison" (http:/ / cosylib. cosylab. com/ pub/ CSS/ DOC-SWT_Vs.
_Swing_Performance_Comparison. pdf). cosylab.com. . Retrieved 2008-05-24. "It is hard to give a rule-of-thumb where SWT would
outperform Swing, or vice versa. In some environments (e.g., Windows), SWT is a winner. In others (Linux, VMware hosting Windows), Swing
and its redraw optimization outperform SWT significantly. Differences in performance are significant: factors of 2 and more are common, in
either direction."
[4] http:/ / java. sun. com/ products/ jfc/ tsc/ articles/ architecture/