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Re: AWT is dead now
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Brian Sullivan wrote:
>
>I'm not the original poster, but I'll chime in here.
>
>There are many special cases for AWT heavyweight/lightweight interactions
>in the AWT code which I'm quite sure everyone at Sun responsible for it
>would love to abandon. All the special case code and hacks would
>disappear.
>
>Heavyweight and lightweight mixing together on the same form just doesn't
>work particularly well; replacing AWT heavyweights with lightweights would
>
I think that the "heavyweight" vs. "lightweight" terminology is really
misleading. Seems like the Swing "lightweight" components are usually
heavier and slower than the native "heavyweight" components.
A better terminology would be "native" vs. "pure java" or "peer" vs. "non-peer".
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