Swing Components

Here, we describe a number of components available in the javax.swing.JComponent class. Figure 8.3 shows the inheritance hierarchy for both top-level containers and many of the lower-level components.

All the components within the JComponent class begin with a J. This distinguishes them from the earlier AWT components.

To abbreviate Swing class names, a program should include the statement

import javax.swing.*;

Some of the Swing Components are;

• Button
• Combo Box
• Combo Box Button
• Radio Button
• Text Field
• Text Area
• Label
• List
  

Figure 8.3: Swing component inheritance hierarchy