Unfortunatly Java is not GPL'd. For that matter I don't think that native graphics services are actually provided by Java, it just calls the existing local windowing system, but I'm probably wrong.
To bad MGR isn't a bigger deal. At 08:41 AM 4/16/96 +0200, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 15.04.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> PostScript at all - they let a guy at NeXT design it for them. Of course >> Java is the successor to NeWS - few people seem to realize that yet. > >I'm not familiar with NeWS, though I heard people groaning about it. > >I've been thinking for years that there's need for a replacement for X >that keeps the networking features, adds local processing in the display >server (network performance, especially on slow links, is a real problem >with X), and adds a much larger set of what X people call widgets or >stuff, that is, a library for all the commonly needed user interface >elements (so it's easier to get some sort of common look to programs, >which is something X is very bad on). > >During the last months, I've finally seen a way to get there without >ending in a very small niche. > >Do it with Java. Everybody and his dog is already using it, and it already >does execution of programs received via network, and it's already ported >to every toaster around. > >Unfortunately, I currently don't have the time to do it :-( > >MfG Kai > > -- Ean Schuessler - Director New Products/New Technologies Novare International, Inc. - The unstoppable fist of digital action http://www.novare.net
