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what is main difference between AWT and Swing

2 replies on 1 page. Most recent reply: Apr 25, 2002 2:37 AM by Pradeep Rangdal

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Kasim Hanif

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what is main difference between AWT and Swing

Posted: Apr 22, 2002 6:44 PM

Hello

What is the most significant difference between AWT and Swing?

1)is it that swing is more efficient
2)that swing is platform independant
3)Swing classes start with J

a few students are disagreeing with each other as this question came up in a recent exam!

Jay Kandy

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Registered: Mar, 2002

Re: what is main difference between AWT and Swing

Posted: Apr 23, 2002 4:55 PM

Heres Amy Fowler's wonderful article about this topic. http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/mixing/

Pradeep Rangdal

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Registered: Apr, 2002

Re: what is main difference between AWT and Swing

Posted: Apr 25, 2002 2:37 AM

Hi ,

The major difference between swing and awt components is
1. It implements MVC architecture and separates the model(data) from its view which is been controlled by a common logic controller.
2. Every component of swing is a container ( object -> components-> containers - > JComponents
3. Doesn?t depend/invoke on any underlying system resources hence platform independent.

Rest article suggested by jay kandy is self explanatory.

Pradeep R.

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