Difference between Swing and AWT

• Although awt is the curcial part of java, it's comoponent sets are not widely used to create GUI components nowadays.

• Swing provides more powerfull and flexible GUI components than awt, hence today many programmers are using swing or javafx for building GUI based application.

• The AWT also provides controls, dialog boxes, windows, containers which are useful, but with a limited graphical interface.

• One reason for limited nature of AWT comnponents is that it translates it's various components into their corresponding, plat-form specific eqiuivalent or peers.

• This means that the look and feel of an awt component is decided from it's native platform and not by java.

• Because of these reasons AWT Components  are called heavy weight components.

NOTE :- AWT components are not fully created in java, this  is the reason they are called heavy-weight components. Whereas Swing components are fully created in java hence they are light-weight components.

• Swing eliminates all the problem associated with awt by providing extra components like JTabbedPane, JTree etc.
• Swing does not overcome awt, but it is build using the funtions of awt

✭ Key features of Swing

1. Swing components are light-weight

• Since the swing components are fully created in java, they do not convert their visual components into their corresponding/native platform peers. Means the look and feel is decided by java.
• Thus, light -weight components are more flexible and more efficient.

      2. Swing supports plugable look and feel

• As we discussed before that  the swing components are created in java and not by other programming languages, the look and feel is under the control of swing.
• This, means that to seperate the look and feel from component logic and this what swing does.
• Also swing can create a better look and feel on any platform, than awt because it contains pluggable(Means it can be attached easily) look and feel feature.