Never call Swing as Swings. Remember that Java Swing is a Proper noun, and should never be called as Java Swings

Almost half of the Resumes I get to interview on Swing, write: “Swings” , instead of “Swing”. They don’t seem to do the same mistake with other technologies for eg., I never see the Following

Javas
Phythons
Flashes
or
Rubys

   Iam not sure why people do that. I guess it has to do something with the name, somehow “Swings” doesn’t look as awkward as “Javas”. Do you know of any other technology where such a common mistake is done in spelling it’s name?

As you might know, Swing was not the first GUI framework created by SUN. The first one was called as the Abstract Window Toolkit(AWT, shortly). AWT worked very similar to how other GUI tools, like, for eg., Visual Basic worked. It worked by translating the components it provided into platform specific counter parts called as native-peers. Thus, AWT components are sometimes referred to as heavy weight components.
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History Of Swing

If you have never written a Swing Program before, here’s a simple Swing Program to get you started
This program will show a frame, with a big “Click me!” button on in it as below

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A Simple Swing Program

6 out 10 people working in swing don’t know what’s the foundation architecture of Java Swing. Is it MVC? some kind of Modified MVC? What the heck is the separable model architecture? How is the pluggable look and feel achieved? Read on.. , this page attempts to answer all that in a simple Q and A fashion.
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Java Swing Architecture