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Light and heavy weight

lakshmi v.samy
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Joined: Feb 02, 2006
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Hi friends

Why we are telling awt components are heavy weight and swing components are light weight components

please help me

Thank in advance

Jeff Albertson
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Here's why it's important to know the distinction and why you should think twice before mixing: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/mixing/
[ February 07, 2006: Message edited by: Jeff Albertson ]

There is no emoticon for what I am feeling!

I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.

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