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Re: Java AWT and Swing support of GCJ
Jansen Guido, CH writes:
> Hello, sorry to bother you with a probably silly question but the
> web pages you offer are really TOUGH to see through if you "just"
> want to try something with GCJ.
>
> My team is working on a big applet to display a lot of graphics as
> one step in the workflow of a web application, so a lot of server
> communication involved, too.
>
> I have tried using the JET compiler and was successful, but now the
> size of the native-compiled applet code is a big issue. So I was
> ordered to investigate further if GCJ could be an alternative. A
> few months ago when I started this task, I stopped investigating
> GCJ because your pages seem to say "not much AWT support and no
> SWING support yet".
>
> Now my question before I dig deeper into GCC and GCJ is: Is this
> statement true? Will I get problems displaying AWT dialog elements
> and java-2D drawings in a GCJ-generated executable? If so, what is
> the time frame when those tasks will be addressed in depth?
>
> And can you say something about how big an exe would result from a
> 700KB jar-File with java-classes, i.e. all in all (compiled JDK
> needed? That is the biggest bunch in the JET results),
> approximately?
>
> Thanks in advance for an answer, I hope I bother you not too much,
> I very much appreciate the effort that you and others to to open
> source software, I wish I could spend some of my time on such
> projects, too.
>
> Kind Regards
> Guido Jansen
>
> Software Developer
> Audatex Systems GmbH
> Zollstrasse 62, CH-8021 Zürich
> Tel: +41 (0)44 278 85 97
> mailto:guido.jansen@audatex.ch
> http://www.audatex.com
>