What Is Swing?
Swing is a windowing framework that adds new capabilities to the AWT. For example, Swing introduces a wide assortment of lightweight components (from lightweight buttons to lightweight trees and tables). These components are completely managed by Java and not by peers. (Some of the containers into which Swing's components are placed are associated with heavyweight peers. After all, at some point, Swing must ensure that the underlying windowing system displays these components.)
Because Swing's components are rendered and managed by Java, they look nicer and have more capabilities (such as tooltips) than their AWT counterparts. Furthermore, these components can have either a consistent look and feel across windowing systems, or ...
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