Jansen Guido, CH writes: > Hello, sorry to bother you with a probably silly question but the > web pages you offer are really TOUGH to see through if you "just" > want to try something with GCJ. > > My team is working on a big applet to display a lot of graphics as > one step in the workflow of a web application, so a lot of server > communication involved, too. > > I have tried using the JET compiler and was successful, but now the > size of the native-compiled applet code is a big issue. So I was > ordered to investigate further if GCJ could be an alternative. A > few months ago when I started this task, I stopped investigating > GCJ because your pages seem to say "not much AWT support and no > SWING support yet". > > Now my question before I dig deeper into GCC and GCJ is: Is this > statement true? Will I get problems displaying AWT dialog elements > and java-2D drawings in a GCJ-generated executable? If so, what is > the time frame when those tasks will be addressed in depth? > > And can you say something about how big an exe would result from a > 700KB jar-File with java-classes, i.e. all in all (compiled JDK > needed? That is the biggest bunch in the JET results), > approximately? > > Thanks in advance for an answer, I hope I bother you not too much, > I very much appreciate the effort that you and others to to open > source software, I wish I could spend some of my time on such > projects, too. > > Kind Regards > Guido Jansen > > Software Developer > Audatex Systems GmbH > Zollstrasse 62, CH-8021 Zürich > Tel: +41 (0)44 278 85 97 > mailto:guido.jansen@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.audatex.com >
