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The Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) is Java's platform-independent windowing, graphics, and user-interface toolkit. The AWT is part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) - the standard API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for a Java program.

Compare: SWING.

["Java in a Nutshell", O'Reilly].

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/awt/

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