AWT
Speech parts
1. AWT - Noun
2. AWT - Proper noun
Meaning
AWT (plural AWTs)
(electricity, power) Initialism of Airborne Wind Turbine.
Initialism of Antony Worrall Thompson.
(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Abstract Window Toolkit.
(transport, UK) Abbreviation of Armathwaite railway station.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Note: This applet will run only in the HotJava browser, the Windows 95/NT implementation of Internet Explorer 4.0, or in an AWT 1.1-enabled version of Netscape (see for a link to the patch required to bring Netscape up to speed).
Java's GUI toolkits (AWT and Swing) are based on the callback mechanism.
GLUT helps a long way in that regard for our C counterparts, but we have Swing and the AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit).
In taking this route, we have overcome the temptation to send events to AWT windows, and enabled our feature to work without any AWT involvement.
User interface developers have focused on improvements offered by Swing, but let's not overlook changes within AWT proper.
Once the applet has initialized itself, it is added to the AWT display hierarchy.