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1.	What are AWT peers?
	A component is associated with a standard AWT button object, a peer object and an interfacing button object constructed per the native GUI.
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2.	What is the difference between a Swing and AWT components?
	AWT components re heavy weight, whereas Swing components are lightweight. Heavy weight components depend on the local windowing toolkit. For example, java.awt.Button is a heavy weight component, when it is running on the Java platform for Unix platform, it maps to a real Motif button.
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3.	What are the different types of controls in AWT?
	The AWT supports the following types of controls: Labels, Pushbuttons, Checkboxes, Choice lists, Lists, Scroll bars, Text components These controls are subclasses of component.
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4.	What are the benefits of Swing over AWT?
	Swing components are light weight. We can have a pluggable look and feel feature which shows us how they appear in other platforms. We can add images to Swing components. We have toolbars and tooltips in Swing.
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