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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2003 02:10:14 +0100
From:      Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@fernuni-hagen.de>
To:        Herve Quiroz <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building or running SWT applications with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <oprz66vcn9dmv4ke@mailstore.fernuni-hagen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20031212174557.GA75947@andouillette.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
References:  <20031210153012.GA54442@andouillette.esil.univ-mrs.fr> <200312120506.33539.x@Vex.Net> <20031212174557.GA75947@andouillette.esil.univ-mrs.fr>

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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:45:57 +0100, Herve Quiroz 
<herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr> wrote:

> <rant>Thanks to IBM for having Java platform-dependent afterall</rant>

When was Java ever platform-independent?
.
See the long road to a FreeBSD native JDK for how platform-dependent
Java really is.

Client-side Java (J2SE) still runs best under Windows, even under
Linux and Solaris, you have the one or other quirk.


> But more seriously, it would be nice if there could be a swing port of
> SWT.

How many more platforms would that bring?

Regards,
Marc



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