Programming the AWT - Layout
Managers, Components, and
Containers
By: Peter Haggar
Abstract
Learn more about the Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) in JDK 1.1.
This presentation provides a brief overview of the AWT and then focuses on
layout managers and containers. The presentation examines different
AWT-provided layout managers, provides program examples for each layout
manager, and shows how to create custom layout managers. The sample source code
for this presentation is provided in a zip file that you can download.
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About the author:
Peter Haggar is an Advisory Software Engineer with IBM in the Network Computing Software
Division in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Peter currently works in the Java
Technology and Strategy group and has shared responsibility for the IBM Java technical
strategy. In addition, Peter is a member of the Java Client Design Council focusing on client
technology and strategy. Peter has worked for IBM since 1987 and has been working with
graphical user interface design and implementation since 1989 and object-oriented (OO)
development and technology since 1991. For the past eight years, Peter has worked on
multiple OO and GUI development projects. For four years, he worked on the IBM
OpenClass C++ class libraries for the VisualAge for C++ product. Before that he worked
on many GUI controls for OS/2. Peter received a B.S. in Computer Science from Clarkson
University in New York in 1987. Peter can be contacted at haggar@us.ibm.com.
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