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Posted by vimarsh on January 09, 2001 at 5:37 AM

> What's the difference between Container and the Component.
> Can we inherit the classes between container and the component

if we consider the awt hierarchy , then it is apparrent that component is more general than container.
why so?
consider the following sentence and ponder over it...

container itself is component.
container can contain other components like say Button,label etc.. as it's name suggests.

Now ,concentrate on component.

any thing which can be composed of many things is component.
Here many refers to 1..*
Thus container which contains other components is itself is a larger component.
But, not every component can contain other component. that is everything can't become component. and so the relationship

ANSWER 2.

YOUR question depicts your mis understanding of oop.

in oop ,definatley you can add class in anywhere between class hierarchy. that's not a problem provided there is a class which represents your real world concept.
SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS THAT IS THERE ANY REAL WORLD THING INBETWEEN COMPONENT AND CONTAINER ?
refer awt hierarcchy to find the answer and reply me.