Re: viva questions - any ideas?

From: VisionSet (spam_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 11/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:33:24 GMT

"Michael Borgwardt" <brazil@brazils-animeland.de> wrote in message
news:2ut1sbF2e67rbU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Madhur Ahuja wrote:
> > As regard of sun's jvm, i have found that it uses
> > *reference counting collectors* algorithm to find out unused
> > objects.
>
> No. This is wrong.
>
> > Q. What are the disadvantages of Swing over AWT?
> > A. Might be little slow.
>
> Not necessarily. The main disadvantage (as people seem to see it)
> is that it's not available until Java 1.2 and thus cannot be used
> in applets that are supposed to run in the outdated Microsoft JVM.

And that Swing *can* provide a more cross platform look to an application
where as awt uses the native toolkit. 

--
Mike W

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