Internal Structure of a JFrame

Applets actually reside inside Frames and JApplets inside JFrames. While applets, panels and other components paint and add directly, in the Swing set, things are painted and added to the ContentPane of the JFrame that they are in.

Applets actually reside inside Frames and JApplets inside JFrames. While applets, panels and other components paint and add directly, in the Swing set, things are painted and added to the ContentPane of the JFrame that they are in.