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Jaydeep Deshmukh
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Why is Swing called lightweight?
 
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Not all of Swing is lightweight. Swing contains lightweight and heavyweight components. Lightweight components are those that don't use the components of the underlying OS. In other words, a Swing component is lightweight if it is responsible for drawing itself.

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Jaydeep Deshmukh
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So, do u mean that JFrame is a heavyweight component since it inherits from Frame?
 
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