AWT and Swing Interview Questions are part of any Java interviews which
involves GUI development work. Since AWT(Abstract Windows
Toolkit) and Swing offers most popular Java GUI solutions, Yes,
JavaFXhas still lot of path to cover in
terms of popularity and usability of Swing. In Investment banking, where Java
rules on server side application development, Swing was heavily used in GUI
development couple of years back. Now trends is shifting towards C# for GUI
development due to couple of reasons e.g. good Swing developers are not easy to
be found as compared to C# developers. By the way there are still many
development work is going on Swing. One of the reason Swing developers are high
in demand is because Swing is quickly becoming a niche technology. This is
surprising becauseSwing is part of
Java, but given steep learning curve of Swing to master different layouts and
components e.g. JTable or JList , I tend
to believe it. In this article we will see some good Swing Interview questions
for practice. Questions like InvokeLater
vs InvokeAndWait are classic, which is always worth preparing.