What are the benefits of using Swing over AWT?

Answer Posted / 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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