The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Abstract Window Toolkit Abstract Windowing Toolkit AWT(AWT) Java's platform-independent windowing, graphics, and user-interface toolkit. The AWT is part of the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) - the standard API for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for a Java program. Compare: SWING. ["Java in a Nutshell", O'Reilly]. (http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/awt/). (2000-07-26)