AWT on Swing
March 14, 2008 Leave a comment
Today I discovered to my surprise, that the X peers of OpenJDK also use Swing as painting backend for its widgets (as opposed to the Motif peers that use Motif or Lesstif or whatever). Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be done in a very reusable way (==hardcoded in the X peers), as I did with my own Swing peers in GNU Classpath. I mean, it is really nice to have this reusable, because then, implementing a new backend for AWT is basically only implementing the top level components and graphics stack. I wonder, if these could be merged somehow, i.e. the reusability of my Swing peers with the completeness of OpenJDKs X peers. Hmmm, this would have been another nice proposal for the OpenJDK Innovators Challenge….