"Swing" framework available now for GCJ

[Rob Pitman <rob at pitman dot co dot za>]

Hi,

GCJ users may be interested in the open-source "Charva" project at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/charva - it is a "Swing" framework for 
character-based terminals (e.g. xterm, PuTTY etc).

The absence of a true javax.swing package for GCJ hampers the adoption 
of GCJ for client-side applications. If you use Charva, you can at least 
present a "graphical" user interface (with JFrames, JPanels, 
JTextFields, JButtons, etc) on a character-based terminal. The Charva 
API is based as closely as possible on the Swing API.

Charva has been around for several years, is quite stable, and has 
already been adopted quite widely for certain niche applications; e.g. 
remote management of Linux/Unix servers, and for use on ruggedised 
portable computers (details are on the project website at 
http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva ).

Charva is compatible with GCJ  - the download tarball contains an 
example of an application compiled with GCJ.

Regards
Rob Pitman