Abstract Window Toolkit (java.awt.*)

The Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) supports Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming. AWT features include:

• a set of native user interface components
• a robust event-handling model
• graphics and imaging tools, including shape, color, and font classes
• layout managers, for flexible window layouts that don't depend on a particular window size or screen resolution
• data transfer classes, for cut-and-paste through the native platform clipboard

Although not as extensive a 2D toolkit as the javax.swing.* api (Swing is built on top of the AWT) in terms of graphics tools, the AWT is the place to start your graphics study in Java.