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The Java Swing library is built on top of the Java Abstract Widget Toolkit (AWT), an older, platform dependent GUI toolkit.You can use the Java GUI programming components like button, textbox, etc. from the library and do not have to create the components

Dissecting the AWTAccumulator.java. An AWT GUI program extends from java.awt.Frame (Line 5) - the top-level window container. In the constructor (Line 13), we constructs 4 components - 2 java.awt.Label and 2 java.awt.TextFields. The Frame adds the compone