What's the status?

[William Tracy]

Hello,

What's the progress on the port? The amount of traffic suggests that
there hasn't been a lot of progress. :-(

I am majoring in software engineering at Cal Poly State University,
and am currently going through different ideas for a senior project.
One of the ideas I am considering is porting AWT/Swing to Haiku.

I would probably initially focus on getting the bare minimum amount of
AWT code ported to support Swing. This would mean getting top-level
windows working, as well as most of the painting APIs (Java2D) but
ignoring most of the other AWT widgets. From there, it seems
reasonable to assume that there is relatively little code in Swing
that would need to be rewritten.

For this to work, though, I would need the core runtime and JNI
already working. Having most of java.lang and java.util working would
be nice, too. (Strings and containers are nice things to have!)

If I am going to turn this into a senior project, I would need to have
that basic infrastructure in place within the next month, tops.
Otherwise, I'm going to have to move on to another project for now.

So, what progress has already been made, and is my help welcome?

-- 
William Tracy
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