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Tuesday Jun 10, 2003

XAWT: A Faster, Lighter AWT for X11 Desktops.

Comments[0] by Dave in Java

[via Wes Felter] I'm sorry I'm gonna miss this talk. I guess it is not really anything ground-breaking, just a new set of peers, but it stills sounds very interesting and maybe there will be some discussion of the future of Swing and AWT.

AWT on Linux and Unix systems is currently based on the Motif widget set. AWT is often called a Heavyweight Toolkit, because of its Motif-based peers. The construction of one Toolkit on top of another Toolkit can often cause "impedance mismatches" that can lead to sluggish performance due to the excessive layering of code, not to mention quality problems and nightmare bugs. In JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE TM) v1.5, AWT will take on a new set of peers that remove the Motif toolkit from underneath AWT. This provides a high-performance and high-quality Toolkit that will be 100% backward compatible with existing JavaTM technology applications.

DRRTY JAVA.

Comments[0] by Dave in Java
Reuters: Sun will at its JavaOne conference this week unveil plans for an advertising campaign and new Web sites, featuring singer Christina Aguilera toting a Java-enabled cell phone that plays games, Sun executives said.
Yep, it's for real.

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