diff b/w AWT and Swing

Hi all
I know that swings are more sophisticated than AWT etc!

But I read somewhere that SWINGS are LIGHTWEIGHT while AWT are HEAVYweight.

Can any one tell me what does it mean?

bye:)

Heavy weight components are known to the operating system. They consist of a "peer", which is the implementation of the component in the operating system, and a Java object which manages the peer.

Light weight components are drawn entirely within Java; the operating system is not aware of or responsible for their existence.

If you want more clarification go through the following URL:

[url=http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/mixing/]Mixing heavy and light components[/url]


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suresh

thanks, ur ans as well as the link is very useful

bye:)