AWT is dead now

[Cedric Berger]

ks@micky.rgv.hp.com wrote:

> > 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).
>
> My argument is that it should be possible to write simple GUIs (for
> system configuration, for monitoring/management, or for interactions
> with small or remote machines) without forcing 13MB (compressed!) of
> Swing classes on them.

If I remember correctly, JRE 1.3 ship (english version) in less than 5MB
(with everything: JVM, Swing, Java2D, .........)

But I agree that, because of the current Microsoft behavior, it's a pain
to have to ship this...
But we must not be making decisions based on M$ behavior, and,
with Netscape 6 and recent Linux deals, things are going to change,
hopefully...

Cedric