Actually there where a couple of conversations on this.
One of the scenarios was to implement the peer stuff using swing.
The main reason was so that X portion of the JDK would not have to be
ported.
That would make getting releases of Java for Linux a little faster. Maybe?
If I remember correctly the two biggest pains that are needed for swing are
the
Frame and Dialog classes. Once those are hooked up to some native library
then
using swing or someother toolkit for awt peers would be cool.
I think.
Edgar Villanueva
PCS Technology
OrderBook project
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> From: Maksim Lin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 10:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Java Project Opinions?
>
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this is slightly off-topic for this group, but I was hoping
> to get some feedback on a project I have been contemplating.
>
> The story is that as a part of my Masters thesis, I need to do a "proof
> of concept" Java project, using a OO distributed developpment
> methodology based on open-source development model. Now one of the
> ideas I have for the project, is creating a pure java awt
> implementation, using X directly(+ maybe a bit of GTK for
> non-lightweight components), based on XTC (pure java X library).
>
> Now my question is: would this be a useful project for Java on Linux and
> would there be people interested in working on this (as developers AND
> users) ?
> If this isn't a good idea for the project, does anyone have any others
> that would be useful ?
>
> Sorry for the longish message, but any comments anyone might have would
> be very appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maksim Lin.
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> Maksim Lin
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> Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research
> Swinburne University of Technology
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> http://www.csse.swin.edu.au/maksim
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