AWT tutorial

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Thomas - 30 Jul 2007 21:27 GMT

I found this tutorial, on sun page, but it seems to be obsolate:
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/awt/contents.html
All the links from it are EOL (end of life), besides on the bottom of that
it says Copyright 1996-2000,
Do you know newer version of this tut ? Shouldn't sun delete it or upgrade
?

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tovare@gmail.com - 30 Jul 2007 22:12 GMT

> I found this tutorial, on sun page, but it seems to be obsolate:http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/awt/contents.html
> All the links from it are EOL (end of life), besides on the bottom of that
> it says Copyright 1996-2000,
> Do you know newer version of this tut ? Shouldn't sun delete it or upgrade
> ?

It looks like everything in the tutorial should would work fine.

Regards,

Tov Are Jacobsen

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Thomas - 30 Jul 2007 22:26 GMT

> > I found this tutorial, on sun page, but it seems to be obsolate:http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/awt/contents.html
> > All the links from it are EOL (end of life), besides on the bottom of that
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> Tov Are Jacobsen
> Yeah but cliking on any links at this page gives error like that

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se-eol.html

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tovare@gmail.com - 30 Jul 2007 23:02 GMT

> Uzytkownik <tov...@gmail.com> napisal w wiadomoscinews:1185829955.758665.255440@l70g2000hse.googlegroups.com...> On 30 Jul, 22:27, "Thomas" <arab...@o2.pl> wrote:
> > > I found this tutorial, on sun page, but it seems to be
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>
> http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se-eol.html

I didn't notice that :-) The links to the API should probably be
updated to the Java SE 6 API, since the tutorial itself contains valid
and supported API's.

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Regards,

Tov Are Jacobsen

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Mark Space - 01 Aug 2007 02:08 GMT

> I found this tutorial, on sun page, but it seems to be obsolate:
> http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/awt/contents.html
> All the links from it are EOL (end of life), besides on the bottom of that
> it says Copyright 1996-2000,
> Do you know newer version of this tut ? Shouldn't sun delete it or upgrade
> ?

You know that Swing replaces AWT in Java, right? AWT is only used for
specialized stuff anymore.

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Andrew Thompson - 01 Aug 2007 06:45 GMT

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>You know that Swing replaces AWT ..

Try replacing Image, Graphics, AlphaComposite,
BorderLayout, KeyStroke, ActionEvent, Desktop*,
EventQueue, Cursor, LinearGradientPaint**, Font..

* introduced in Java 1.6
** also introduced in 1.6, and mentioned because
it was a surprise to me - I had never noticed it before
today.

>...in Java, right? AWT is only used for
>specialized stuff anymore.

Puhh.. May be true of AWT *components*, but there
is a lot more to AWT than compontents.
I wish Sun had put the GUI components into a separate
heirarchy to the other GUI stuff mentioned above, but then,
that assumes they knew in advance that there would
be two widget toolkits. :-(

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Mark Space - 01 Aug 2007 08:21 GMT

>> ...in Java, right? AWT is only used for
>> specialized stuff anymore.
>
> Puhh.. May be true of AWT *components*, but there
> is a lot more to AWT than compontents.

I saw someone who appeared to be completely unfamiliar with AWT looking
for a tutorial. I assume Thomas is very new. For newbies, "Swing
replaces AWT" I think is a decent summary of the current situation. Or
at least it's as much as I wanted to type.

Anyway, sure AWT methods can still be used and some parts are mixed in
there with Swing, but by and large anyone looking for tutorials should
understand Swing (and Java) first. After they do that they should have
a pretty decent idea which areas to expand to next, regardless of the
dates listed on the tutorial.

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