Re: [platform-swt-dev] Support for JSR-198 (was SWT port for Swing!)

[Jim White <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher Deckers wrote:
> ... 
> In my department (in Nokia Networks), there is no way I could 
> suggest using SWT without a solution to make it portable for the few
> non supported systems. 
> ...

It isn't just useful for platforms that don't have native SWT 
implementations.  The percentage of companies which are able or even 
willing to make deploying native code part of their Java platform 
product strategy is a small minority.  That will take quite a bit of 
time to change (in fact it can't become mainstream until there's a 
completed JSR to make it part of the Java standard).

I'm pleased that you're working on this, and I'll be happy to try it out 
when you're ready for some testers (I'm primarily Mac OS X and did Motif 
and GTK+ ports of SWT/Eclipse to Mac OS X but didn't care enough for the 
results to use 'em).

Jim