[sword-devel] native java was:UI for Windows Question...

[Eeli Kaikkonen]

On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:50, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2003 17:02, Chris wrote:
> > Well I had a little Java swing program, about 5kb .jar file. And when I
> > asked it to, JBuilder7 converted it into a .exe of about 70kb, that
> > didn't appear to require the JRE. How it works I don't know, but it
> > seems to work. There's also the option of Linux and Sun/Sparc native
> > executeables.
>
> Basically it's possible to make native awt and swing libraries and do
> native code cross-platform development with java but implementing those
> libraries would be a huge task. Still it could be reasonable to use the
> best of the both worlds: native speed and ease and clarity of java the
> language. Quite much what Borland is trying to do with Delphi and Kylix?

Stupid me, I didn't read the previous post carefully enough. So Borland really 
*is* doing this with JBuilder.

Eeli