On Jul 19, 12:26 am, Lhasadad <lhasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
Swing on JRE 1.1 wasn't too bad. Swing in JRE 1.2 was embarrassing. The problem was the feature work done on the graphics pipeline which killed performance. 1.3 and 1.4 (and "Moore's Law") closed the barn door... > 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. Forté for Java (NetBeans) was unusably slow. Somethings never change. Tom -- 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.