The advanced graphical toolkit for the [Java] programming language.  Can do absolutely amazing things with graphics and its i18n handling, but is still a complete PITA!

One notable feature of Swing is its use of a [Model / View / Controller] paradigm.  If what you're doing can fit the models they provide, working with Swing can be a lot easier.  So long as you don't care about getting focus handling right... :^/

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[Category Java] | [Category GUI] | [Category Graphics]