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Explain the difference between AWT and SWT.Abstract Windows Toolkit (AWT):
- AWT is the original Java GUI tool kit.
- AWT's comes standard with every version of Java technology.
- It is very stable.
- It doesn’t need to be installed.
- AWT is a very simple tool kit with limited GUI components, layout managers, and events.
- Lowest-common denominator (LCD) approach is used for for AWT.
- Some commonly used components like Tables, Trees, Progress Bars, and others, are not supported.
- Applications that need more component types need to be created from scratch.
- In AWT, peers can provide services to minimize the differences between hosts.
Standard Window Kit (SWT):
- SWT is based on a peer implementation.
- It has an adequate set of controls to make most applications on a host-by-host basis, creating emulated controls for any not supplied by the particular host. Thus, it overcomes the LCD problem faced by AWT.
- In SWT, the peers are just wrappers on host controls.
- SWT is a good enough portable solution but not as well as Swing.
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