Is the JVM aware of some classes?

Question

Hello,
I am digging into java events. I decided to start with the Java 1 Event model. (I know it is deprecated and I should not use it in a production environment).
I built a simple class that extends "java.awt.Frame" and overrides the "handleEvent" model.
It works fine and I assume the event generated comes from the JVM (Am I right?).
My question is: Is the JVM aware of the Event class? If not then how does it passes the Event object into the handleEvent method?
Thanks in advance,
Balteo. (This is repost)
Here is my class
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class CaptureTouches extends Frame {
CaptureTouches(){
this.show();
this.pack();
public boolean handleEvent(Event e){
switch(e.id){
case Event.KEY_ACTION:return true;
//catching some events/keys
switch(e.key){
case Event.F1:System.out.println("F1");return true;
case Event.F2:System.out.println("F2");return true;
case Event.F3:System.out.println("F3");return true;
case Event.F4:System.out.println("F4");return true;
case Event.F5:System.out.println("F5");return true;
case Event.F6:System.out.println("F6");return true;
case Event.F7:System.out.println("F7");return true;
case Event.F8:System.out.println("F8");return true;
case Event.F9:System.out.println("F9");return true;
case Event.F10:System.out.println("F10");return true;
case Event.F11:System.out.println("F11");return true;
case Event.F12:System.out.println("F12");return true;
default: System.out.println("Other event");return true;
public static void main(String[] args){
CaptureTouches ct = new CaptureTouches();
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Answer 1

It works fine and I assume the event generated comes from the JVM (Am I right?).No, it's wrong. All events are generated by AWT (usually in peers).
May be you should read some tutorial about AWT (there was one on Sun's site).