What are the benefits of using Swing over AWT?
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1. Pluggable Look and Feel
2. Swing is more lightweight than AWT
3. Larger set of components such as tables, trees, sliders,
spinners, progress bars,internal frames and text components.
4. Components can be bound to keyboard events to react to
keystrokes.
5. Built on the MVC model
6. Better support for multi-threading
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Answer / noorjahan
1.It is more powerful and flexible than awt
2.All the components of swing are non rectangular
3.Swing is totally implemented in java , while in case of
Awt,it uses the native code of the operating system.
4.Swing has transparent pixel while awt has opaque pixel.
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Answer / archana hanchate
1.Swing provides both additional components and added functionality to AWT-replacement components.
2.Swing components are lightweight
3.Swing provides paint debugging support for when you build your own components
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Answer / archana hanchate
Swing provides a richer set of components than AWT. They are 100% Java-based.
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Answer / krithika
1.Swing provides both additional components and added functionality to AWT-replacement components.
2.Swing components are lightweight
3.Swing provides paint debugging support for when you build your own components
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