Lakshmanan

• Aug 25th, 2005

 

JApplet, JDialog, JFrame and JWindow are heavy weight components in swing.

vrcgupta_32

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• Dec 1st, 2005

 

can u tell me what is heavy weight complonents and light weight components

meenama

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• Apr 30th, 2008

 

A heavyweight component is one that is associated with its own  native screen resource (commonly known as a peer). A lightweight component is one that "borrows" the screen resource of an ancestor  (which means it has no native resource of its own -- so it's "lighter").