Swing in JDK 1.2

1998-08-07 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
Hi everybody I'm just pointing out to everybody that JavaWorld (www.javaworld.com) are doing a poll, on whether it is right for Sun to put Swing under the package name com.sun.java.swing. This is very important for us in the open source community to try and change Sun's minds. As we may in the

Re: Swing in JDK 1.2

1998-08-07 Thread Andrew Dodd
Dear All, I agree with this but for another reason. In an ideal world we shouldn't have to write code in the 'com.sun.*" package but I don't think it is a huge problem. If we have to then we have to, I wouldn't imaging that it would raise any major legal problems. Sun probably doesn't really a

Re: Swing in JDK 1.2

1998-08-08 Thread Scott A. Miller
Agree, we should all respond to this. In addition to forcing developers to put classes in com.sun.java that shouldn't exist there, this will prevent use of the "cross platform look and feel" that Sun promised Java developers early on in the evolution of Swing. IOW we will only be able to use a W

Re: Swing in JDK 1.2

1998-08-07 Thread Moses DeJong
I really hate to respond to this with a cross post to all these lists but I feel I have to because of all the crap that sun has been putting Java developers through lately. Both sides of this argument have made good points on the feedback page for this poll. The point I feel has been lost in the