Swing Features

• Pluggable look-and feels -- as above
• Lightweight components
  • Do not depend on native peers to render themselves.
  • Simplified graphics to paint on screen
  • Similar behaviour across all platforms
  • Portable look and feel
  • Only a few top level containers not lightweight.
• New components -- tress tables, sliders progress bars, frames, text components.
• Tooltips -- textual popup to give additional help
• arbitrary keyboard event binding
• Debugging support