Lightweight vs. Heavyweight GUI Components
Most Swing components are lightweight components—they’re written, manipulated and displayed completely in Java. AWT components are heavyweight components, because they rely on the local platform’s windowing system to determine their functionality and their look-and-feel. Several Swing components are heavyweight components.
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