AWT 1.1

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> ">" == S Colin Leister <colin@leisterconsulting.com> writes:

>> As I understand it, the Cygnus Java runtime won't provide an =
>> implementation of the AWT 1.1.  This is very understandable, but
>> what would be required to provide this = support?

As others have said, you'd have to write the native side of AWT as
well as the Java code.

It might be more interesting to write Swing and not AWT (although I
have to claim general ignorance about both).

>> How does this contrast with the work the CLASSPATH project is
>> producing?

I haven't really looked at Classpath (or Japhar or Kaffe, out of
cleanroom concerns).  My understanding, though, is that at least
Japhar uses JNI to implement native methods.  So that is one important
contrast: our implementation uses C++ native methods and our Java/C++
integration.  In our scheme, calling a native method is just as fast
as calling a compiled Java method.

Tom