What is the design pattern that Java uses for all Swing components?

The design pattern that Java uses for all Swing components is a modified version of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, often referred to as the separable model architecture[2][6]. In this modified MVC pattern, the view and controller responsibilities are collapsed into a single UI object for each component. This approach allows for a separation of the component's state and behavior from its visual representation, enabling the pluggable look-and-feel feature of Swing components[2].

Swing components are designed with a strong MVC lineage, where each component has its own model that represents the component's data or state. The UI object, which combines both view and controller aspects, delegates the look-and-feel-specific aspects to the UI delegate class. This separation of concerns allows developers to plug in their own model implementations for Swing components and to change the look-and-feel of the application at runtime without affecting the underlying data structure[2].

Additionally, Swing utilize...