From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>,
java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: awt or swing support?
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38A4F15C.5FDD61CD@sigma6.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200002120409.UAA23761@ferrule.cygnus.com>
Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> Amancio> Does it matter if someone ports the Sun's awt /swing stuff to
> Amancio> gcj kinda of like an addon?
>
> Matter in what way? I think you're free to do that. Of course, we
> couldn't distribute it. However, JNI isn't finished yet (I'm actively
> working on it, but I don't have an ETA). So making this work would
> probably be hard.
I chatted with somebody once who maintains a commercial Java compiler
for Windows. His product uses Sun's class libraries. He said debugging
the JNI stuff for AWT was some of the hardest work he'd ever done,
because it exposed various subtleties in Sun's JNI implementation.
Not very encouraging news, in case anybody wants to attempt it.
The classpath project seems like the best way to go for AWT. However
since Swing is pure Java, I suspect many will "borrow" it from the JDK
once AWT is working sufficiently well.
--
Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-01 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-01 0:00 Amancio Hasty
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Tromey
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Amancio Hasty
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Tromey
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Jeff Sturm [this message]
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Amancio Hasty
2000-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Tromey
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