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A: Java Graphical User Interface (GUI) components are called heavyweight when they rely on components from the underlying operating system to be displayed. This is because these native “peers” have a relatively heavy processing demand to render on screen and maintain their state representation. Thus applications composed of many heavyweight components can become slow to render on screen.
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