Tutorial on Swing Components

 Swing library and it's categorization of components and controls

Basically, Swing library provides around 50+ components. These all components are categorized containers, windows and controls etc. based upon their behavior and working style. 

Apart of  these default components, As I wrote in earlier posts, Swing components are customizable and new components can be invented, on need basis. 

Default Swing components and their categorizations are as below:

• Swing Containers
• Panel
• Tabbed Pane
• Spilt Pane
• Scroll Pane
• Tool Bar
• Internal Frame
• Desktop Pane
• Layered Pane
• Swing Controls
• Label
• Button
• Toggle Button
• Check Box
• Radio Button
• Button Group
• Combo Box
• Check Box
• List
• Text Field
• Text Area
• Scroll Bar
• Slider etc
• Swing Windows
• Dialog
• Frame
• Color Chooser
• File Chooser
• Option Pane
• Swing Menus
• Menu Bar
• Menu
• Menu Item
• Popup Menu
• Separator
• Swing Fillers
• Glue
• Horizontal Glue
• Rigid Area
• Vertical Glue etc.

Example Window with some Controls and containers:

 

Fig 1: Sample Controls from Swing Toolkit

That is all for now. Happy coding!