AWT is dead now

Tue Mar 21 02:18:00 GMT 2000

Hi,
On 2000年3月20日, Cedric Berger wrote:
> Nobody uses AWT widgets anymore. I've never seen a new AWT
> application the last two years. In fact, Swing is widely recognized
> as the better GUI toolkit availabe today (and I'm not speaking of
> Java only). The main problem so far was speed, but JDK 1.3 is
> much better, and having the code compiled with a tool like GCJ
> will also make it much faster.
>
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I do use AWT. I started with Swing but change since I want my code to
run everywhere. Applet using AWT can be used in browsers like netscape
without any problems, extra downloads etc ... . Using AWT make it thus
possible to let costumers easy test a restricted version online before
purchasing the thing. With Swing, well I havn't got netscape to work with
it. AWT seems to be the most portable gui to use and therefore the first
thing that should be implemented. As noted in other answers, swing 1.1
is possible to use then to.
David.