What is the difference between AWT & Swing?

Answer Posted / g.lakshmi

AWT are heavy weight components while Swing are light
weight components.

Light weight components have transparent pixels where as
heavy weight is always opaque.

Light weight components are non-rectangular.Heavy weight
components are rectangular

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