Abstract Window Toolkit

Synonyms

Abstract Windowing Toolkit

AWT

(AWT) 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/.