JFrame与JPanel的区别

JFrame是顶级容器，而JPanel是普通容器。包含Swing组件的程序必须包含一个顶级容器，而Swing组件不可以直接加入到顶级容器中。Sun文档有下列相关的解释：
1、The containment hierarchy for any window or applet that contains Swing components must have a Swing top-level container at the root of the hierarchy.
2、You don't add components directly to a top-level container such as a Jframe, and you should add components to a container (called the content pane) that is itself contained by the JFrame.
3、Swing provides three generally useful top-level container classes: JFrame, JDialog, and JApplet
至于其他的不同，它们既然是不同的类，自然不同了，可以看看API文档。