Wont this browser be useable for AmigaOS?

[bhoggett]

When the Virtual Processor gets ported to AmigaOS along with Java Foundation Classes then Java apps will fly!

*sigh*

"The mouth's open, the lips move, but Mr. Brain has long since departed..." - Lord Edmund Blackadder

Since Personal Java isn't capable of running the vast majority of Java applications - certainly not desktop applications - the fact that the limited number of Java programs that work with it will "fly" is kind of pointless. It's about as relevant as saying "we have Kaffe..." .

If you want to take advantage of Java applications, you need to get J2SE ported. Kaffe and Personal Java just don't cut it.

[Beakster]

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?

[bhoggett]

@tonyw

As someone said, Kaffe is compatible with Java 1.4 (I think) in most respects.

Well, the download editions of Mandrake Linux come with Kaffe, and there no chance of running any full scale Java applications on that until you download and install the full J2SE from Sun.

As for AWT...    :lol:  :lol:

[tonyw]

@bhoggett:

I agree with you, Bill, AWT is a mess. That's why I haven't touched it.

[to tell the truth, I'm not too fond of the whole structure of kaffe, but then, I'm not yet sufficiently au fait with it to make many improvements]

tony