AWT is dead now

[Cedric Berger]

ks@micky.rgv.hp.com wrote:

> Take this clue.  Swing does not run on KVM.  Swing does not run on
> Chai.  Swing does not run on IBM VM.  Swing does not run on Kaffe.
> Swing does not run on jview.  Swing does not run on TowerJ.

Swing do run very well on jview (I'm using Together/J in this
configuration).
I would be very very surprised if it didn't work on IBM VM or TowerJ
(even it doesn't make a lot of sense to use TowerJ with Swing, towerJ
being designed for server apps).

On the other hand, I will agree with you that Sun's Swing is probably too
big
for most of today's embedded application. But it is probably possible to
make a reduced version of Swing if for example you remove Pluggable L&F

> >
> > 4) if somebody really need it at that point, implementing
> > AWT widgets by calling Swing code: I believe that it is (or
> > was) Sun's plan too.
> >
>
> What amazing hubris.  Who is implementing AWT on top of Swing supposed
> to help?

Simplest way to achieve backward compatibility with old apps that uses
AWT.