Re: Mixing native and bytecode (Swing)?

[John Moore <gcj at jmsd dot co dot uk>]

At 11:17 06/10/2003 -0400, Jeff Sturm wrote:

> While in theory you could run an unbundled swing with gcj, it's going to
> depend on java.awt support that isn't really mature yet.  And I'm not sure
> that Sun's license would permit use of swing separate from the JRE.
>
> You see, gcj and the JRE are really separate products and don't
> interoperate whatsoever.  So there are probably technical hurdles and
> perhaps licensing also.



This is what I don't really understand, because I thought that GIJ was a 
fully-fledged JVM, able to run any existing classes, and that GCJ was able 
to compile any Java source to bytecode as well as native code. Thus I don't 
understand why there should be a problem for GIJ running Swing, as long as 
it's using the Sun classes and not the clean room GCJ implementation, which 
you say "isn't really mature yet."

John 
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