Building or running SWT applications with FreeBSD

Marc van Woerkom marc.vanwoerkom at fernuni-hagen.de
Sun Dec 14 17:11:35 PST 2003


On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:45:57 +0100, Herve Quiroz 
<herve.quiroz at 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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