9. Swing Components

• Swing components implement 100% of their functionality in pure Java.

• Swing components are referred to as lightweight components...

  • ...they don't rely on native user-interface components, such as Windows buttons, Motif buttons, or Mac buttons.

• Swing provides...

  • ...image buttons, hover buttons, tooltips, tables, trees, splitter panels, customizable dialog boxes and quite a few other components.