AWT is dead now

Tue Mar 21 06:48:00 GMT 2000

Cedric Berger wrote:
> 1) implementing the basic (low level) AWT functionalities.
> Basically Window/Frame/Component/Container/Canvas and
> event handling.
>> 2) implementing Java2D (it's probably more difficult than 1),
> but it can be done later and its probably a lot of fun to do.

Is Java2D required for Swing?
> 3) implementing Swing on top of the minimal AWT (or
> borrowing it from 1.1 as a temporary solution). Swing is not
> a trivial piece of code, but the advantage is that since almost
> all functions/members of Swing are either public or protected,
> all the skeleton of the code can be written from the JavaDoc
> output of swing. "only" filling the method's body is required.

What are Kaffe and Classpath doing? Are people using Swing with those?
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Jeff Sturm
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