Java Review

Week 5 - Composition, GUIs, and Applets

Topics

• Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT)
• Interfaces
• Event Driven Programming
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Applets

Abstract Windowing Toolkit

• Basic graphical user interface components:
  • Menus
  • Buttons
  • Frames
  • Canvases
• Succeeded by Swing

Interfaces vs. Inheritance

• Inheritance - extends some other class' capabilities

• Interfaces - are like a mini-contract for methods a class must implement

Event Driven Programming

while (true) {

  event = waitForSomethingInterestingToHappen();

  callThingThatRegisteredInterest( event );

}