Abstract

When java was first released in the spring of 1995, it included a library, the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT), for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for applications. Java’s ambitious claim—“write once, run anywhere”—promised that an application laden with drop-down menus, command buttons, scroll bars, and other familiar GUI “controls” would function on various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Sun’s own Solaris, Apple’s Mac OS, and Linux, without having to be recompiled into platform-specific binary code.

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