AWT toolkit for Mac OS X Aqua

Jeremy Denton majeric at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 09:18:19 PDT 2008


The mechanism for setting up a project with financial support is built  
into sourceforge. You could start a project there.

Jeremy


On Sep 17, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Emmanuel Puybaret wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Time passed, and we still didn't develop anything about Aqua AWT  
> Toolkit.
>
> As I said back in November 2007 http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2007-November/000001.html 
>  , I wanted to spend some time on this, but finally I didn't have  
> the time.
> One good thing : I worked with JNI during 5 months this year, and  
> this will help to develop such a toolkit (but I still have a small  
> knowledge about Cocoa).
> An other good thing for self motivation : month after month, it  
> looks like Apple won't support old architecture in JDK, and their  
> support for Java in general is worse and worse. It seems we really  
> need OpenJDK to run on Mac OS X.
>
> I write you today to get ideas about how to get some financial  
> support to help me contribute to this toolkit port. Any idea will be  
> welcome. :-)
>
> Best regards
> --
> Emmanuel PUYBARET
> Email  : puybaret at eteks.com
> Web    : http://www.eteks.com
>




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