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A Brief Introduction to the Swing Package
What is Swing?
A Swing Demo
Trail: Graphical User Interfaces
Lesson: A Brief Introduction to the Swing Package

> This lesson gives you a brief introduction to the capabilities of the Java SE platform that pertain to developing programs with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Next, it shows you a demo (sample code provided) that showcases many of these features.

> The next lesson, Swing Features discusses these capabilities in more detail.

> ### What is Swing?

> > The Swing toolkit, shipped as part of the Java SE platform, provides a rich set of GUI components. But Swing offers much more functionality than a collection of standard widgets. This section takes a look at Swing's rich functionality.

> ### A Swing Demo

> > A rich multi-class Swing application, PasswordStore, is presented. The source code is provided as a reference to the user.

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