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Originally Posted by kusmi
Just a stupid question - I guess you might already tried it :-)
If TAO refuses to load external javax.swing packages (I guess because of licensing issues...) why not simply rename the package, e.g. to something like javax.swingswang - so that TAO will not recognize you actually try to load swing packages?
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I've compiled GNU's Classpath version of Swing as javai.swing and Tao loads it. But there are more than a few issues involved in getting it happy on the Tao JVM. The other problem is that the iLiad really has a limited amount of memory. The DJVU viewer for example slows to a crawl trying to process color books as it has to constantly free up memory to continue processing.
Swing wasn't written for small memory devices. Tao may have a version with a lighter memory requirement but they would have had to invest much effort into producing it. I've concentrated on enhancing AWT as it inherently has a smaller memory foot print.
I'm porting Jarnal with an eye to keeping its memory foot print small as well. i think Jarnal will be a killer app for the iLiad. I just hope iRex can rise to the challenge and produce reliable iLiad's before someone hires a hit man to have me whacked for encouraging them to buy iLiad's.
