AWT

SWINGS

AWT components are platform- dependent.

Java swing components are platform-independent.

AWT components are heavyweight.

Swing components are lightweight.

AWT doesn't support pluggable look and feel.

Swing supports pluggable look and feel.

AWT provides less components than Swing.

Swing provides more powerful components such as tables, lists, scrollpanes, colorchooser, tabbedpane etc.

AWT doesn't follows MVC(Model View Controller) where model represents data, view represents presentation and controller acts as an interface between model and view.

Swing follows MVC.