IceLake <[email protected]> wrote in messagenews:[email protected]...>> I'm a Java beginner; just purchased four books to start learning it (Core> Java volumes 1 and 2, and Graphic Java volumes 1 and 2), and the bookstend> to lean more towards Swing and less towards AWT. From what I rememberreading> of the Core book volume 1 (up to the point I've gotten to so far), ittalks> about how Swing is becoming more portable and the "newer" way of handling> graphics in Java.>> I was wondering how worth it is to focus on AWT if Java programming istending> to lean towards Swing.>> Any comments? Is AWT equally as important to learn well like Swing, or is> it going to become out-of-date?At the present time it's difficult to run Swing-enabled applets in browserswithout either very large applet downloads or modifications on the systemcontaining the browser. Now that the browser wars are basically over, itdoesn't look to me as if browsers will be upgraded to support Swing anytimesoon. To me, that means that there are still lots of reasons to restrictyourself to AWT when writing applets.
AWT is not dead
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