<Swing Dev> Project proposal: fbtoolkit

[Phil Race]

I don't follow what this has to do with Swing. 2D would be more affected ..
Swing is ignorant of whether the Motif or X toolkit is specified
and even works with the headless toolkit.

Also the existing toolkits can still leverage all of the
same internal 2D native code for rendering. I don't see where
you are going to get that from unless if its going to be
a pure Java solution.

-phil.

Tom Marble wrote:
> All:
> 
> In conjunction with Steph Meslin-Weber [1] I would like to propose
> a new OpenJDK project: fbtoolkit
> 
> The objective of this project is to produce a body of code which is
> a lightweight framebuffer-based peer implementation for AWT and Swing.
> The goal of this code is to remove the dependency on X or
> other graphics layers such that graphics can be redirected to
> a framebuffer (e.g. a raw buffer, VNC, etc.). This example
> implementation will prefer pure-Java solutions, with public
> extension points available to enter native resources as necessary.
> 
> In prototyping this functionality with OpenJDK it
> should be possible demonstrate this graphics redirection
> via a command line such as:
> % java -Dawt.toolkit=net.java.openjdk.fbtoolkit.Toolkit -jar myApp.jar
> 
> NOTE: there are many other options which one would want
> to specify (e.g. bit depth, encoding, geometry, port number, etc.) and
> these can all be collected into a properties file which is
> implicitly named (based upon the provider) or overridden on
> the command line.
> 
> Examples of usage include: implementation debugging, device
> emulation, multiple-head clone outputs/inputs, simultaneous
> multiple-peer output, etc.
> 
> As this proposal is most closely related to the AWT [2] and Swing [3]
> groups they have been added on CC: and as such we would like to
> request sponsorship from these groups.
> 
> Please note that per the interim OpenJDK guidelines for Projects [4]
> that followups should go the discuss list [5].
> 
> Thank you for your consideration,
> 
> --Tom & Steph
> 
> [1] Steph is a Participant
>     Steph's blog: http://blog.tangency.co.uk/
>     java.net ident: twiun
> [2] the AWT Group: http://openjdk.java.net/groups/awt/
> [3] the Swing Group: http://openjdk.java.net/groups/swing/
> [4] Proposing Projects: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/
> [5] discuss: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> 
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