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Re: IDE?
Jim White wrote:
>
> The approach would be to develop a light glue layer to map the necessary
> API so that both Swing and IFC are supported. Adding SWT to that would
> be no problem. An AWT option might also be worthwhile for some
> applications.
That would certainly be nice.
Providing Kawa and JEmacs hooks for Eclipse might be helpful politically
for both projects. I.e. some potential Eclipse users might be very
happy to have a real integrated Emacs engine.
But it certainly doesn't look like I will have much time on such
projects, though I should be able to help out. So I encourage
people to go for it!
> The idea that any free Java will have Swing is very unlikely. Due to
> Sun's licensing, the massive size of Swing, the impracticality of
> implementing from the API or spec, and Swing's terribly bad performance
> (which is limited by its design and will not be getting any faster) make
> it not worthwhile.
I think the only way we will have a Free Swing is if Sun frees it.
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