Re: FreeSWTTestApps page added to wiki

[Egon Willighagen]

On Tuesday 22 November 2005 16:29, Roman Kennke wrote:
> You probably should try latest CVS. There was a huge amount of progress
> in the Swing package in the meantime.

Yes, will try that some time...

> > Yesterday a bio-/chemoinformatics platform project was announced:
> > Bioclipse[1]. It's eclipse based, so normally no Swing stuff. I was able
> > to boot the program with jamvm and classpath 0.18, but added a new 'view'
> > for 2D and 3D rendering of molecular structures did not work with this
> > problem:
> >
> > Unhandled event loop exception
> > Reason:
> > Not implemented [need JDK 1.5 or greater]
> > (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: sun/awt/X11/XEmbeddedFrame)
>
> Bleah. It's not that this is a JDK1.5 feature which is missing, it is an
> unspecified class that is used by this program or maybe eclipse. We do
> not provide classes in the com.sun namespace. Maybe file a bugreport to
> Eclipse or this program that they should not use such classes if they
> want to produce portable code.

Yeah... It's a reported bug with eclipse... meanwhile, in bioclipse we're 
trying to loose the AWT/SWT bridge that seems to use this class...

> > I think this comes from the Eclipse RCP stuff itself, though I don't have
> > a full stacktrace at this moment.
>
> A full stacktrace would surely help to find out if this is Eclipse's
> failure or from the program.
>
> > Anyway, I added a FreeSWTTestApps to the Classpath wiki using the same
> > setup as the FreeSwingTestApps page.
>
> Very nice indeed!

Ack. will report later.

E.

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