JDK6u12 - Mixing heavy and lightweight component

So, if you are a Swing Developer, you have heard many stories where someone messed up Lightweight component with Heavyweight component. In one line " A heavyweight component
is one that is associated with its own native screen resource (commonly
known as a peer). A lightweight component is one that "borrows" the
screen resource of an ancestor (which means it has no native resource
of its own -- so it's "lighter")." AWT is all heavyweight, Swing is all lightweight except top level ones like JFrame, JWindow...

Now many times you have heard "Don't mix lightweight and heavyweight". What will happen ? Alright, here is a small code :

 
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class Test extends JPanel {

  public Test() {
     JComboBox jc = new JComboBox();
     JButton btn1 = new JButton("Button1");
     Button btn2 = new Button("Button2");
     Button btn3 = new Button("Button3");
     jc.addItem("France");
     jc.addItem("Germany");
     jc.addItem("Italy");
     jc.addItem("Japan");

    add(jc);
    add(btn1);
    add(btn2);
    add(btn3);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    frame.getContentPane().add(new Test());
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setSize(200, 200);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}

Here what you see the output:

Now, this is what it happen what you mix lightweight and heavyweight. No way, you can bring the drop down items on top of Button2 !!

All Past :) , JDK6 update 12 and JDK7 build 19, the output will be like this:

New JDK release fixed all these problem of mixing lightweight component and heavyweight component. So, don't worry, keep messing :).

For more detail, please see this : http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/GUI/mixing_components/index.html

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