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What are heavyweight and lightweight components?

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In Java AWT - Abstract Window Toolkit, GUI components created are OS dependent. When they are created, each component forms a peer component due to which they are called heavyweight components.

Swing components are platform independent. No peer components are formed due to which they are called lightweight components.

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