Uses of Package
java.awt

Packages that use java.awt

java.applet	Provides the classes necessary to create an applet and the classes an applet uses to communicate with its applet context.
java.awt	Contains all of the classes for creating user interfaces and for painting graphics and images.
java.awt.event	Provides interfaces and classes for dealing with different types of events fired by AWT components.
java.awt.image	Provides classes for creating and modifying images.
javax.microedition.xlet	Provides interfaces used by applications and the application manager to communicate.

Classes in java.awt used by java.applet

Component
A component is an object having a graphical representation that can be displayed on the screen and that can interact with the user.

Container
A generic Abstract Window Toolkit(AWT) container object is a component that can contain other AWT components.

Dimension
The Dimension class encapsulates the width and height of a component (in integer precision) in a single object.

Image
The abstract class Image is the superclass of all classes that represent graphical images.

MenuContainer
The super class of all menu related containers.

Panel
Panel is the simplest container class.

Classes in java.awt used by java.awt

Adjustable
The interface for objects which have an adjustable numeric value contained within a bounded range of values.

AlphaComposite
This AlphaComposite class implements the basic alpha compositing rules for combining source and destination pixels to achieve blending and transparency effects with graphics and images.

AWTEvent
The root event class for all AWT events.

Checkbox
A check box is a graphical component that can be in either an "on" (true) or "off" (false) state.

CheckboxGroup
The CheckboxGroup class is used to group together a set of Checkbox buttons.

Color
The Color class is used encapsulate colors in the default sRGB color space or colors in arbitrary color spaces identified by a ColorSpace.

Component
A component is an object having a graphical representation that can be displayed on the screen and that can interact with the user.

Composite
The Composite interface defines the methods to compose a draw primitive with the underlying graphics area.

Container
A generic Abstract Window Toolkit(AWT) container object is a component that can contain other AWT components.

Cursor
A class to encapsulate the bitmap representation of the mouse cursor.

Dialog
A Dialog is a top-level window with a title and a border that is typically used to take some form of input from the user.

Dimension
The Dimension class encapsulates the width and height of a component (in integer precision) in a single object.

Event
Event is a platform-independent class that encapsulates events from the platform's Graphical User Interface in the Java 1.0 event model.

EventQueue
EventQueue is a platform-independent class that queues events, both from the underlying peer classes and from trusted application classes.

Font
The Font class represents fonts.

FontMetrics
The FontMetrics class defines a font metrics object, which encapsulates information about the rendering of a particular font on a particular screen.

Frame
A Frame is a top-level window with a title and a border.

Graphics
The Graphics class is the abstract base class for all graphics contexts that allow an application to draw onto components that are realized on various devices, as well as onto off-screen images.

Graphics2D
This Graphics2D class extends the Graphics class to provide more sophisticated control over graphics operations.

GraphicsConfiguration
The GraphicsConfiguration class describes the characteristics of a graphics destination such as a printer or monitor.

GraphicsDevice
The GraphicsDevice class describes the graphics devices that might be available in a particular graphics environment.

GraphicsEnvironment
The GraphicsEnvironment class describes the collection of GraphicsDevice objects and Font objects available to a Java(tm) application on a particular platform.

GridBagConstraints
The GridBagConstraints class specifies constraints for components that are laid out using the GridBagLayout class.

Image
The abstract class Image is the superclass of all classes that represent graphical images.

Insets
An Insets object is a representation of the borders of a container.

ItemSelectable
The interface for objects which contain a set of items for which zero or more can be selected.

LayoutManager
Defines the interface for classes that know how to layout Containers.

LayoutManager2
Defines an interface for classes that know how to layout Containers based on a layout constraints object.

Menu
A Menu object is a pull-down menu component that is deployed from a menu bar.

MenuBar
The MenuBar class encapsulates the platform's concept of a menu bar bound to a frame.

MenuComponent
The abstract class MenuComponent is the superclass of all menu-related components.

MenuContainer
The super class of all menu related containers.

MenuItem
All items in a menu must belong to the class MenuItem, or one of its subclasses.

MenuShortcut
A class which represents a keyboard accelerator for a MenuItem.

Point
A point representing a location in (x, y) coordinate space, specified in integer precision.

Polygon
The Polygon class encapsulates a description of a closed, two-dimensional region within a coordinate space.

PopupMenu
A class that implements a menu which can be dynamically popped up at a specified position within a component.

Rectangle
A Rectangle specifies an area in a coordinate space that is enclosed by the Rectangle object's top-left point (x, y) in the coordinate space, its width, and its height.

Shape
The Shape interface provides definitions for objects that represent some form of geometric shape.

SystemColor
A class to encapsulate symbolic colors representing the color of GUI objects on a system.

TextComponent
The TextComponent class is the superclass of any component that allows the editing of some text.

Toolkit
This class is the abstract superclass of all actual implementations of the Abstract Window Toolkit.

Transparency
The Transparency interface defines the common transparency modes for implementing classes.

Window
A Window object is a top-level window with no borders and no menubar.

Classes in java.awt used by java.awt.event

ActiveEvent
An interface for events that know how dispatch themselves.

Adjustable
The interface for objects which have an adjustable numeric value contained within a bounded range of values.

AWTEvent
The root event class for all AWT events.

Component
A component is an object having a graphical representation that can be displayed on the screen and that can interact with the user.

Container
A generic Abstract Window Toolkit(AWT) container object is a component that can contain other AWT components.

ItemSelectable
The interface for objects which contain a set of items for which zero or more can be selected.

Point
A point representing a location in (x, y) coordinate space, specified in integer precision.

Rectangle
A Rectangle specifies an area in a coordinate space that is enclosed by the Rectangle object's top-left point (x, y) in the coordinate space, its width, and its height.

Window
A Window object is a top-level window with no borders and no menubar.

Classes in java.awt used by java.awt.image

Graphics
The Graphics class is the abstract base class for all graphics contexts that allow an application to draw onto components that are realized on various devices, as well as onto off-screen images.

Graphics2D
This Graphics2D class extends the Graphics class to provide more sophisticated control over graphics operations.

Image
The abstract class Image is the superclass of all classes that represent graphical images.

Transparency
The Transparency interface defines the common transparency modes for implementing classes.

Classes in java.awt used by javax.microedition.xlet

Container
A generic Abstract Window Toolkit(AWT) container object is a component that can contain other AWT components.