Module java.desktop

Provides the classes necessary to create an applet and the classes an applet uses to communicate with its applet context.

Contains all of the classes for creating user interfaces and for painting graphics and images.

Provides classes for color spaces.

Provides interfaces and classes for interaction with various desktop capabilities.

Drag and Drop is a direct manipulation gesture found in many Graphical User Interface systems that provides a mechanism to transfer information between two entities logically associated with presentation elements in the GUI.

Provides interfaces and classes for dealing with different types of events fired by AWT components.

Provides classes and interface relating to fonts.

Provides the Java 2D classes for defining and performing operations on objects related to two-dimensional geometry.

Provides classes and interfaces for the input method framework.

Provides interfaces that enable the development of input methods that can be used with any Java runtime environment.

Provides classes for creating and modifying images.

Provides classes and interfaces for producing rendering-independent images.

Provides classes and interfaces for a general printing API.

Contains classes related to developing beans -- components based on the JavaBeans™ architecture.

Provides classes and interfaces relating to bean context.

Defines a contract between user-interface components and an assistive technology that provides access to those components.

The main package of the Java Image I/O API.

A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with synchronous notification of events during the reading and writing of images.

A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with reading and writing metadata.

Package containing the public classes used by the built-in BMP plug-in.

Classes supporting the built-in JPEG plug-in.

Public classes used by the built-in TIFF plug-ins.

A package of the Java Image I/O API containing the plug-in interfaces for readers, writers, transcoders, and streams, and a runtime registry.

A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with low-level I/O from files and streams.

Provides the principal classes and interfaces for the Java™ Print Service API.

Provides classes and interfaces that describe the types of Java™ Print Service attributes and how they can be collected into attribute sets.

Package javax.print.attribute.standard contains classes for specific printing attributes.

Package javax.print.event contains event classes and listener interfaces.

Provides interfaces and classes for I/O, sequencing, and synthesis of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data.

Supplies interfaces for service providers to implement when offering new MIDI devices, MIDI file readers and writers, or sound bank readers.

Provides interfaces and classes for capture, processing, and playback of sampled audio data.

Supplies abstract classes for service providers to subclass when offering new audio devices, sound file readers and writers, or audio format converters.

Provides a set of "lightweight" (all-Java language) components that, to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms.

Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component.

Contains classes and interfaces used by the JColorChooser component.

Provides for events fired by Swing components.

Contains classes and interfaces used by the JFileChooser component.

Provides one interface and many abstract classes that Swing uses to provide its pluggable look-and-feel capabilities.

Provides user interface objects built according to the Basic look and feel.

Provides user interface objects built according to the Java look and feel (once codenamed Metal), which is the default look and feel.

Provides user interface objects that combine two or more look and feels.

Provides user interface objects built according to the cross-platform Nimbus look and feel.

Synth is a skinnable look and feel in which all painting is delegated.

Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with javax.swing.JTable.

Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components.

Provides the class HTMLEditorKit and supporting classes for creating HTML text editors.

Provides the default HTML parser, along with support classes.

Provides a class (RTFEditorKit) for creating Rich-Text-Format text editors.

Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with javax.swing.JTree.

Allows developers to provide support for undo/redo in applications such as text editors.

Defines the API for transferring data between and within applications.

Defines the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), the Streaming API for XML (StAX), the Simple API for XML (SAX), and the W3C Document Object Model (DOM) API.

Service Provider Interface (SPI) for Assistive Technology.

Provider for audio file reading services.

Provider for audio file writing services.

A format conversion provider provides format conversion services from one or more input formats to one or more output formats.

The service provider interface (SPI) for ImageInputStreams.

The service provider interface (SPI) for ImageOutputStreams.

The service provider interface (SPI) for ImageReaders.

The service provider interface (SPI) for ImageTranscoders.

The service provider interface (SPI) for ImageWriters.

Defines methods that provide sufficient information about an input method to enable selection and loading of that input method.

A MidiDeviceProvider is a factory or provider for a particular type of MIDI device.

A MidiFileReader supplies MIDI file-reading services.

A MidiFileWriter supplies MIDI file-writing services.

A provider or factory for a particular mixer type.

Implementations of this class provide lookup services for print services (typically equivalent to printers) of a particular type.

A SoundbankReader supplies soundbank file-reading services.

A StreamPrintServiceFactory is the factory for StreamPrintService instances, which can print to an output stream in a particular document format described as a mime type.