Re: FreeSwing, EvolutionAlgorythms

["Oleg Moroz" <moroz at metahood dot ru>]

Do we really need another Swing for JDK 1.1 ?

What I mean is that there are really two versions of Swing:

1) Swing 1.1.1 for JDK 1.1.x with license that allows to redistribute it as
part of the value-added applet or application. This needs some research,
however I feel that the term "value-added application" might inlcude e.g.
gcj-based development system; if it is not by itself, a simple Swing-based
application might be added to the distribution). This version depends on AWT
1.1 only (well, 1.1.x, x >=7) and it seems that the Sun's version could be
used for most purposes people would like to use it.

2) Swing (JFC) that is part of Java2. This is AFAIK not available as
separate product and is covered by more restrictive (in this case at least)
JDK license; it is also dependent on AWT 1.2 features. We'd want to develop
a replacement only when we move to the 1.2 codebase and then we'll also need
to develop AWT 1.2 replacement w/o regard to Swing.

Oleg Moroz
Software Engineer
Geonix / MetaHood

----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com>
To: Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>
Cc: Patrick Spingys <pa0093@stud.uni-wuppertal.de>; <info@cygnus.com>;
<java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>; <mauve-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: FreeSwing, EvolutionAlgorythms


> Jules Bean (jules@jellybean.co.uk) wrote:
> > Classpath has some of swing done.  I don't know about Kaffe..
>
> Classpath has a bit of a GTK look and feel for Swing done.  The work
> completed is fairly minimal.
>
> Park of the problem is that you need a 1.2 AWT for Swing to run on top of
> and the 1.2 AWT looks substantially more complicated than the 1.1 AWT.
> Swing itself is huge.  Perhaps has big as the entire 1.1 API combined.
>
> --
> Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/