Yo,
Could the lack of AWT for Amiga not be worked around by displaying the windows on an Xserver?
I remember years ago running an Xserver on Workbench and running some unix programs within that. It basically involved running the program from Amiga CLI and the window was displayed in/on the Xserver window/screen.
Not ideal I know, but at least it would let us run AWT (Maybe Swing also?) programs without having to reboot to linux.
Also, whatever happended to Merapi?