> - What is the point of the peer architecture?  If each peer has a
> non-peer counterpart, why not do everything directly in the non-peer?
> (I've been wondering the answer to this question ever since I first
> learned the AWT)

Yeah, same here.  I vote for doing away with heavyweight peer components all
together and having the AWT simply wrap the lightweight JFC components.
That way we have a completely portable implementation and never have to
worry about writing a single line of native code (as far as the AWT goes).

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