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> Swing was originally a separate project that was grafted into the JVM and not
> renamed, probably for back-compatibility.
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FWIW I was in the Java group at Sun at the time. Swing was always
intended to be a new windowing toolkit for the Java platform, offering a
higher level of abstraction than the pre-existing Abstract Windowing
Toolkit, java.awt, which was already a bad package name. It had to be
called something. There could have been various problems with using a
sensible package name such as "windows".
