With these, developers can expand far beyond what was possible with traditional UI frameworks such as Swing and AWT. The role of Swing and Java's AWT. Included as part of the original 1995 JDK release ...

An illustration is JEmacs (JEmacs.sourceforge.net), a (not very active) project of mine to implement Emacs in Java using Swing (and Kawa, discussed below, for Emacs Lisp support). Starting up a simple ...