Light Weight Component

Hello Everone!

does any one know what is core concept behind Light Weight Component

seconldy it exist only in java or in some other lanaguage too ??

also i required the good link to get the whole information about it if some
one know..

Thanks

lightweight component: A component in a graphical user interface is lightweight if it is not rendered in its own native window (i.e. a window that is provided by the platform's operating system/window manager), but is instead `painted' onto a heavyweight component.

for example: JButton, JTextField, ... etc are Heavy weight components. Light weight components are the ones drawn by user-code overriding one of the painting methods to draw the body of the component instead of letting the VM draw it

I hope that was clear, and I think you can look this up in the JDoc or you can take a look at the Java SE APIs & Documentation