Hi Mark, --- Mark Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 21:46, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > How complete is libswing-java? > > > > http://rainbow.netreach.net/~sballard/japi/ > > That's impressive. > Does it work so well in real life? We've had so many people saying that > swing is not possible with free tools that these pages are somewhat hard > to believe. I hope they are true. Even if they're not, the place which > should be leading the development of open source Java is, IMHO, Debian, > so we should make these more easily available and encourage their use.
Stuart's page only tells you if a method exists, nothing about the quality of implementation ;) In general, Classpath's Swing is good enough for compiling against it (as it has a lot of method signatures right), but doesn't really/fully implement many of the classes. Every now and then someone comes along and enthusiastically proposes to write a free as in software Swing implementation, etc. I think a lot of this enthusiasm could be channeled into actual code if more people were aware that GNU Classpath already provides a useful framework for Swing development. My hope is that a classpath-swing package in debian would help direct users and developers to contribute to the GNU Classpath effort, among all the other nice things, like bringing more java software into debian-free. cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
