Theoretically, if you're doing most of the time-critical stuff in native
code and using JNI and the invocation api, then you could have a
workable desktop.
One idea that springs to mind would be to use the invocation api to
create a VM instance when the desktop is initialized, so you don't have
the overhead of startup in the middle of running applications.
--Jeff
Nathan Meyers wrote:
>
> Michael Holst wrote:
> >
> > I've given the project some thought and it seems not so far fetched, if
> > you look at Novell 5 they sport a Java desktop for administration.
> >
> > If speed is a factor we may need to get source to the JDK, but that's
> > not hard.
>
> Not to sound too heretical, but if you want to mess with source there's
> always Kaffe. Not to mention if speed is a factor :-).
>
> Nathan
>
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