AWT is a Java interface to native system GUI code present in your OS. It will not work the same on every system, although it tries. Swing is a more-or-less pure-Java GUI. It uses AWT to create an operating system window and then paints pictures of buttons, labels, text, checkboxes, etc., into that window and responds to all of your mouse-clicks, key entries, etc., deciding for itself what to ...
Java GUI frameworks. What to choose? Swing, SWT, AWT, SwingX, JGoodies ...
Is the java.awt included in JDK 10? Ye, the package does exist. The Java10 API docs do confirm the same as well. If yes where is and how can I make visible to Eclipse? In a modular code, all you need to do, is to resolve the java.desktop module by declaring a dependency on it in your module-descriptor file (module-info.java). i.e.
AWT is the original cross-platform, native-peer based GUI widget set. It drew a lot of complaints for not being perfectly consistent across platforms. Sun built the Swing widget set to answer those concerns, building it with pure Java (no native peers), but people complained that it was slow and ugly. IBM built SWT as a native-peer based competitor to Swing. It succeeded because it looks good ...
java - SWT and AWT, what is the difference? - Stack Overflow
The event dispatch thread is a special thread that is managed by AWT. Basically, it is a thread that runs in an infinite loop, processing events. The java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater and javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater methods are a way to provide code that will run on the event queue. Writing a UI framework that is safe in a multithreading environment is very difficult so the AWT ...