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

You may checkout Swing Sightings.

This website is hosted by SUN and it is dedicated to sw projects that use Swing. There are a lot of projects using Swing ...

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/