java.desktop (Java SE 15 & JDK 15)
Description: declaration: module: java.desktop
Keywords: java.desktop module

# Module java.desktop

Defines the AWT and Swing user interface toolkits, plus APIs for accessibility, audio, imaging, printing, and JavaBeans.

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Since:
  9

- ## Packages

  Exports
  Package | Description
  --- | ---
  java.applet | Provides the classes necessary to create an applet and the classes an applet uses to communicate with its applet context.
  java.awt | Contains all of the classes for creating user interfaces and for painting graphics and images.
  java.awt.color | Provides classes for color spaces.
  java.awt.desktop | Provides interfaces and classes for interaction with various desktop capabilities.
  java.awt.dnd | 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.
  java.awt.event | Provides interfaces and classes for dealing with different types of events fired by AWT components.
  java.awt.font | Provides classes and interface relating to fonts.
  java.awt.geom | Provides the Java 2D classes for defining and performing operations on objects related to two-dimensional geometry.
  java.awt.im | Provides classes and interfaces for the input method framework.
  java.awt.im.spi | Provides interfaces that enable the development of input methods that can be used with any Java runtime environment.
  java.awt.image | Provides classes for creating and modifying images.
  java.awt.image.renderable | Provides classes and interfaces for producing rendering-independent images.
  java.awt.print | Provides classes and interfaces for a general printing API.
  java.beans | Contains classes related to developing beans -- components based on the JavaBeans architecture.
  java.beans.beancontext | Provides classes and interfaces relating to bean context.
  javax.accessibility | Defines a contract between user-interface components and an assistive technology that provides access to those components.
  javax.imageio | The main package of the Java Image I/O API.
  javax.imageio.event | A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with synchronous notification of events during the reading and writing of images.
  javax.imageio.metadata | A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with reading and writing metadata.
  javax.imageio.plugins.bmp | Package containing the public classes used by the built-in BMP plug-in.
  javax.imageio.plugins.jpeg | Classes supporting the built-in JPEG plug-in.
  javax.imageio.plugins.tiff | Public classes used by the built-in TIFF plug-ins.
  javax.imageio.spi | A package of the Java Image I/O API containing the plug-in interfaces for readers, writers, transcoders, and streams, and a runtime registry.
  javax.imageio.stream | A package of the Java Image I/O API dealing with low-level I/O from files and streams.
  javax.print | Provides the principal classes and interfaces for the Java Print Service API.
  javax.print.attribute | Provides classes and interfaces that describe the types of Java Print Service attributes and how they can be collected into attribute sets.
  javax.print.attribute.standard | Package `javax.print.attribute.standard` contains classes for specific printing attributes.
  javax.print.event | Package `javax.print.event` contains event classes and listener interfaces.
  javax.sound.midi | Provides interfaces and classes for I/O, sequencing, and synthesis of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data.
  javax.sound.midi.spi | Supplies interfaces for service providers to implement when offering new MIDI devices, MIDI file readers and writers, or sound bank readers.
  javax.sound.sampled | Provides interfaces and classes for capture, processing, and playback of sampled audio data.
  javax.sound.sampled.spi | Supplies abstract classes for service providers to subclass when offering new audio devices, sound file readers and writers, or audio format converters.
  javax.swing | Provides a set of "lightweight" (all-Java language) components that, to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms.
  javax.swing.border | Provides classes and interface for drawing specialized borders around a Swing component.
  javax.swing.colorchooser | Contains classes and interfaces used by the `JColorChooser` component.
  javax.swing.event | Provides for events fired by Swing components.
  javax.swing.filechooser | Contains classes and interfaces used by the `JFileChooser` component.
  javax.swing.plaf | Provides one interface and many abstract classes that Swing uses to provide its pluggable look-and-feel capabilities.
  javax.swing.plaf.basic | Provides user interface objects built according to the Basic look and feel.
  javax.swing.plaf.metal | Provides user interface objects built according to the Java look and feel (once codenamed Metal), which is the default look and feel.
  javax.swing.plaf.multi | Provides user interface objects that combine two or more look and feels.
  javax.swing.plaf.nimbus | Provides user interface objects built according to the cross-platform Nimbus look and feel.
  javax.swing.plaf.synth | Synth is a skinnable look and feel in which all painting is delegated.
  javax.swing.table | Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with `javax.swing.JTable`.
  javax.swing.text | Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components.
  javax.swing.text.html | Provides the class `HTMLEditorKit` and supporting classes for creating HTML text editors.
  javax.swing.text.html.parser | Provides the default HTML parser, along with support classes.
  javax.swing.text.rtf | Provides a class (`RTFEditorKit`) for creating Rich-Text-Format text editors.
  javax.swing.tree | Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with `javax.swing.JTree`.
  javax.swing.undo | Allows developers to provide support for undo/redo in applications such as text editors.

  Indirect Exports
  From | Packages
  --- | ---
  java.datatransfer | java.awt.datatransfer
  java.xml | javax.xml javax.xml.catalog javax.xml.datatype javax.xml.namespace javax.xml.parsers javax.xml.stream javax.xml.stream.events javax.xml.stream.util javax.xml.transform javax.xml.transform.dom javax.xml.transform.sax javax.xml.transform.stax javax.xml.transform.stream javax.xml.validation javax.xml.xpath org.w3c.dom org.w3c.dom.bootstrap org.w3c.dom.events org.w3c.dom.ls org.w3c.dom.ranges org.w3c.dom.traversal org.w3c.dom.views org.xml.sax org.xml.sax.ext org.xml.sax.helpers

- ## Modules

  Requires
  Modifier | Module | Description
  --- | --- | ---
  transitive | java.datatransfer | Defines the API for transferring data between and within applications.
  transitive | java.xml | 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.

- ## Services

  Uses
  Type | Description
  --- | ---
  AccessibilityProvider | Service Provider Interface (SPI) for Assistive Technology.
  AudioFileReader | Provider for audio file reading services.
  AudioFileWriter | Provider for audio file writing services.
  FormatConversionProvider | A format conversion provider provides format conversion services from one or more input formats to one or more output formats.
  ImageInputStreamSpi | The service provider interface (SPI) for `ImageInputStream`s.
  ImageOutputStreamSpi | The service provider interface (SPI) for `ImageOutputStream`s.
  ImageReaderSpi | The service provider interface (SPI) for `ImageReader`s.
  ImageTranscoderSpi | The service provider interface (SPI) for `ImageTranscoder`s.
  ImageWriterSpi | The service provider interface (SPI) for `ImageWriter`s.
  InputMethodDescriptor | Defines methods that provide sufficient information about an input method to enable selection and loading of that input method.
  MidiDeviceProvider | A `MidiDeviceProvider` is a factory or provider for a particular type of MIDI device.
  MidiFileReader | A `MidiFileReader` supplies MIDI file-reading services.
  MidiFileWriter | A `MidiFileWriter` supplies MIDI file-writing services.
  MixerProvider | A provider or factory for a particular mixer type.
  PrintServiceLookup | Implementations of this class provide lookup services for print services (typically equivalent to printers) of a particular type.
  SoundbankReader | A `SoundbankReader` supplies soundbank file-reading services.
  StreamPrintServiceFactory | 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.