Since Helios refers to the Sun. I actually think it might have been an homage to Sun as an entity. Recognizing that it was moving into a new phase under Oracle. There is not hint of an eclipse of sun in that name?
My recollection was that SWT came out after SWING but they were close in time. I believe it got started during the time AWT was out but swing had not come out. Even after Swing came out there was still an interest in something that performed better (Swing was not a barn burner in the beginning) Also in those days Sun was not all that fast at addressing reported bugs. I voted for a few in the day... Am I correct in my recollection that both NetBeans and Eclipse were not originally projects started in Sun and IBM. I forget where NB came from but think Eclipse came out of IBM picking up OTI. Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
