AWT GUI Components:

We now start in-depth treatment of Java's AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) - the classes which comprise the java.awt package.  The given figure displays a portion of the java.awt class his hierarchy which involves the classes covered in this chapter. Every class in the figure inherits directly form class Object. A Class Color holds methods and constants for manipulating colors. A Class Font holds methods and constants for manipulating fonts. It contains methods for obtaining font information. Class Polygon holds methods for creating polygons. A Class Graphics hold methods for drawing strings lines rectangles and other shapes and at last a Class Toolkit gives methods for getting graphical information.