From owner-freebsd-java Fri Mar 1 8: 6:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E4C237B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:06:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 16gpXs-000HK2-00; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:06:08 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g21G68f83891; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:06:08 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:06:08 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native Message-ID: <20020301160608.D83735@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3DC@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3DC@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:01:43PM +0100 X-Scanner: exiscan *16gpXs-000HK2-00*PgE5qixHs/Q* (Manchester Computing, University of Manchester) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:01:43PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: | Hello Jonathon, | | > | > Hotspot seems great, and will help the perfomance issue for sure. But | > isn't there an ongoing debate about look-and-feel, and the AWT vs the | > SWT? | > | SWT? If you mean Swing; use Swing, not AWT. It's much better. | | What look 'n feel issues are you referring to? I was reading javaworld recently (IIRC) and apparently there are issues with Swing looking so different from native platform GUIs. So, there is another toolkit, SWT, or Standard (Window|Widget) Toolkit. IIUC, it is supposed to offer the power and flexibility of Swing with the look and feel of the native application, even using JNI where possible to do so. I'm just repeating what I read, so maybe I need to do some more digging. But I'm under the impression that some developers don't like the look and feel of Swing, and apparently the LookAndFeel API isn't enough to fix it. Let me see what I can dig up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message