# Java Swing

Skill · Software Development and Engineering Practices

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/java-swing

Java Swing is a GUI (graphical user interface) toolkit included in Java SE, used by developers to build desktop applications with windows, buttons, menus, and other visual components. It's part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) and offers a platform-independent, customizable look-and-feel compared to the older AWT toolkit. While largely superseded by JavaFX for modern applications, Swing is still maintained and used in many legacy enterprise desktop applications.

Related skills: [Java SE](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/java-se), [JavaFX](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/javafx)

## Open roles requiring Java Swing (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.