AWT

[Jeff Sturm]

On 4 Aug 1999, Thomas Reilly wrote:
> Swing on the JDK probably draws the entire GUI in the client and
> probably sends the whole thing to the server through the X protocol
> socket.

Swing does make extensive use of double buffering, which should use a
pixmap resource, at least on X.  But you are right, that Swing is very
heavy on the client.

I have heard from others that it gets worse with JDK 1.2 and the Java2D
api... specifically that font rasterizing is now done in the client too.

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Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com