| Swing is light weight Component. | Applet is heavy weight Component. |
| Swing have look and feel according to user view you can change look and feel using UIManager. | Applet Does not provide this facility. |
| Swing uses for stand lone Applications, Swing have main method to execute the program. | Applet need HTML code for Run the Applet. |
| Swing uses MVC Model view Controller. | Applet not. |
| Swing have its own Layout like most popular Box Layout. | Applet uses AWT Layouts like flowlayout. |
| Swing have some Thread rules. | Applet doesn't have any rule. |
| To execute Swing no need any browser By which we can create stand alone application But Here we have to add container and maintain all action control with in frame container. | To execute Applet programe we should need any one browser like Appletviewer, web browser. Because Applet using browser container to run and all action control with in browser container. |
