From owner-freebsd-java Mon Oct 19 18:09:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15363 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15358 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:09:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA25654; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:09:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA08479; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:09:07 -0600 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:09:07 -0600 Message-Id: <199810200109.TAA08479@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Edward Ing" Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWT with what window toolkit? Please correct me if I In-Reply-To: <19981020004754.29188.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <19981020004754.29188.qmail@hotmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that to see AWT > classes work you need to have the motif windowing tookit (or lesstif) if > you are not using a browser client, but a stand alone client. The JDK must be linked with Motif, yes. > What are the impediments to making AWT in its JDK form work on other > windowing systems like KDE? > 1. Is it the case that the JDK from Sun is coded with Motif and that the > difficulty is to write the AWT to use the KDE widgets(for example?) This is at least part of it. > 2. Or is it the case that Sun licensing will not allow someone to write > class to a different windowing system set? You'd have to take up the legalities with SUN, but I don't think any of us 'armchair' lawyers would have any idea if you could distribute such a modified JDK. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message