RE: AWT is dead now

["Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>]

I personally think that applets are relevant in this context.  I wrote one
that I would really like to be able to compile with gcj, to reduce the
startup overhead, if nothing else.  Compiling it as an application is
trivial; finding an AWT implementation is obviously not.

In general, it seems to me that this gives a way to write small desktop
tools only once, and have them be runnable quickly as a native executable
from the local disk, or occasionally from within your favorite browser.
This is probably not the most important use of gcj, but it seems to me it is
a potential use, that we shouldn't completely discount either.
Unfortunately, my impression is that very few of them use Swing. 

Hans

-----Original Message-----
From: Cedric Berger [mailto:cedric@wireless-networks.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 8:59 AM
To: Nic Ferrier
Cc: java-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: AWT is dead now

Well, than show me some real *applications* that uses AWT. And I'm not
talking
about applets (not very relevant in a GCJ context) or book's examples.
I'm talking about real, useful, applications.