Re: Request Opinions on a typical Java development environment (non-Windows)

From: Roedy Green (see_at_mindprod.com.invalid)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:07:41 GMT

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:22:38 -0700, Karthik
<removeme_kaykaydreamz@yahoo.com> wrote or quoted :

>What I meant was that, for a person who wants to learn java, itis
>totally transparent, as to what GUI manager the person uses. It is more
>important to learn the API than bother about the GUI manager.

So Linux seem to have several layers of GUI manager out past Swing??

You have the X-Windows, then Gnome/KDE, then something low level they
all must agree on that perhaps allocates rectangles of screen
real-estate, then finally the device driver.

Is this considerable duplication of effort, or are the layers cleanly
separated? 

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