Applets V/s Swing in JAVA

["Dritan"]

I am a student of IT and I am in my first of degree college . I have heard that the third year students have to make a live project in their last semesters and they have to choose the language for the front end and their forms as well. From now on I have decide that I will have make my project on JAVA , but in JAVA too there are many aspects Swing and Applet, so I want to ask if I want to develop a GUI for my project what will be better to prefer ? What is the exact difference between a JAVA Swing and Applet ?

[Jacques25]

Yes you will indeed have projects in your last semester , I know it because I was to an IT student and I myself had made a project in my last semester. I think you should prefer VB.NET rather than opting for JAVA , because it has much more drag and drop features than JAVA. But if you are opting for JAVA then I think you should prefer swing.

[Vandam]

I think you should prefer Swing because the components used in Swing are light weight components, java Sing uses various components such as JFrame, JTable , JTree , J Label and all that . This all components are import from the library java .lang. library . I think you should prefer this because , swing will help you create much more user friendly applications.

[Steyn]

In Swing you can create a scroll pane with the help of a JScrollPane and JInternalFrame will help you crate frame.and popup components such as JPanel which will help you in creating Panels. this feature is not available in Java applet. Swing is a light weight container and occupies less space in the memory space.