Quoting Simon Poole: > Is no-one using SWT[1]? Supposed to be a big improvement over AWT, > especially in terms of porting[2]. Allegedly used in embedded systems > because of small size and efficiency, and can be used as the peer layer > of an AWT implementation. Seems to me it would map extremely well onto > DirectFB.
I read the SWT Design article part 1 & 2. There are some reasonable rules they follow, but with some things I need to make friends, e.g. they only have the smallest possible native part, i.e. just a wrapper around system libraries such as DirectFB. But in my opinion it's more efficient to minimize the transitions between Java and native space, because JNI is still too expensive. Therefore there should be some intelligent components in the native implementation that talk to the system libraries. Limiting all UI API calls to one thread was another sobering topic ;) -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
