5. Graphical User Interfaces
A graphical user interface (GUI) is that part of a Java program
that interacts with the user of the program via mouse actions,
keyboard actions, buttons, scrollbars, menus, windows, and other
point-and-click user interface elements drawn on the screen.
Java provides a package of classes
called the Abstact Window Toolkit (AWT) to construct graphical
user interfaces. In this chapter we shall learn how to use the
java.awt package. We shall not discuss every possible
GUI component or every possible interaction between user and program, but
instead we show the AWT basics to get started.
