Java GUI Framework Interview Question:

What are differences between Swing and AWT?

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One of the classic java swing interview questions and mostly asked on phone interviews. There is couple of differences between swing and AWT:

1) AWT component are considered to be heavyweight while Swing component are lightweights
2) Swing has plug-gable look and feel.
3) AWT is platform depended same GUI will look different on different platform while Swing is developed in Java and is platform dependent.
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