Where are Swing applications used?

Question

Are Swing applications really used nowadays? I don\'t find a place where they are used. Is it okay to skip the AWT and Swing package (I learned a bit of the basics though)?

Answer 1

Whenever you want to write a desktop GUI app for non-Windows OS, you use Swing as the only sane and guaranteed cross-platform GUI framework.

Besides, Swing has a very good design. I recommend to learn it anyways, to make yourself a better programmer.