> Does netbeans use swing? It looks very fast..I can't believe it is all
> swing...
Yes. Swing is much faster in Java 1.5 due to tighter integration with the
underlying OS. I'd stopped using Swing in favor of SWT exactly because
earlier versions were slow; now I have no issues using Swing instead.

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