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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:09:07 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        "Edward Ing" <inge1questions@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AWT with what  window toolkit? Please correct me if I 
Message-ID:  <199810200109.TAA08479@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981020004754.29188.qmail@hotmail.com>
References:  <19981020004754.29188.qmail@hotmail.com>

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> Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that to see AWT 
> classes work you need to have the motif windowing tookit (or lesstif) if 
> you are not using a browser client, but a stand alone client.

The JDK must be linked with Motif, yes.

> What are the impediments to making AWT in its JDK form work on other 
> windowing systems like KDE?
> 1. Is it the case that the JDK from Sun is coded with Motif and that the 
> difficulty is to write the AWT to use the KDE widgets(for example?)

This is at least part of it.

> 2. Or is it the case that Sun licensing will not allow someone to write 
> class to a different windowing system set?

You'd have to take up the legalities with SUN, but I don't think any of
us 'armchair' lawyers would have any idea if you could distribute such a
modified JDK.




Nate

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