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Jazz played with a steady beat using the harmonic structure of popular songs and the blues as the basis for improvisations and arrangements. The popular music of the U.S. from about 1930 to 1945 (years sometimes called the swing era), swing is characterized by syncopated rhythmic momentum with equal stress accorded to the four beats of a measure. Larger jazz bands required some arranged material, and Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie were the primary innovators of big-band swing. In smaller ensembles, improvised instrumental solos generally follow a rendering of the melody.

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Swing

A Java toolkit for developing graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It includes elements such as menus, toolbars and dialog boxes. Swing is written in Java and is thus platform independent, unlike the Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), which provides platform-specific code. Swing also has more sophisticated interface capabilities than AWT and offers such features as tabbed panes and the ability to change images on buttons. Swing is included in the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) which are provided in the Java Developers Toolkit (JDK). See JFC and JDK.

Swing Vs. AWT

Swing calls the operating system at a lower level than AWT. Whereas AWT routines use native code, Swing was written entirely in Java and is platform independent.

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swing

1. Boxing a wide punch from the side similar to but longer than a hook

2. Cricket the lateral movement of a bowled ball through the air

3. something that swings or is swung, esp a suspended seat on which a person may sit and swing back and forth

4. 

a. a kind of popular dance music influenced by jazz, usually played by big bands and originating in the 1930s

b. (as modifier): swing music

5. Prosody a steady distinct rhythm or cadence in prose or verse

6. 

a. a fluctuation, as in some business activity, voting pattern etc.

b. able to bring about a swing in a voting pattern

c. having a mixed voting history, and thus becoming a target for political election campaigners
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(programming)

Swing - Java's graphical user interface (GUI) package that provides a large collection of widgets (buttons, labels, lists etc.) that behave similarly on different platforms. Swing features "pluggable look & feel", allowing the program to look like a Windows, Motif or Macintosh application. It is implemented using the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture and makes extensive use of nested "containers" to control the handling of events such as keystrokes. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/javax/swing/package-summary.html.