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Posted by jagjit on June 18, 2001 at 11:23 AM

hi
well if you want to know the diff between awt and swing than the main diff is the awt components are platform dependent and swing components except high level containers like JFrame etc are platform independent.that is why awt has a limited no of components .
each component has a corresponding peer class which communicates