From: Moses DeJong <dejong@cs.umn.edu>
  To  : GGI Developers <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:07:53 -0600

Re: Java and GGI (GSI, GII, ...)

On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, teunis wrote:

> *heh*
> Almost got graphics working with Java...  more later...
> (JNI is your friend if ya haveta do this :)
> I have ideas...
> 
> Okay, so does anyone out there know what I could use to implement a
> mini-GUI (first target: Java 1.0 combatibility :)???
> 
> What GGI libs could help?  (there's, like, not much info on what, say, GIC
> is for... what's it for?)
> 
> Uh... has anyone else looked at doing this?
> (anyone else wanna? :)
> 
> Almost got java.awt.Graphics working completely.
> Have limited (ie - compiled-in) font support :)
> 	[more later depending on whim]
> looking at I/O.  Currently downloading JDK source :)
> BTW - this will -not- require (or use) any of Sun's sources and should
> compile on any GGI + Java-1.1 complient system :)
> 
> This will be a combination of a shell that loads/runs java programs and a
> group of shared libs (hopefully eventually GGI-style).  Very primitive
> right now.
> 
> G'day, eh? :)
> 	- Teunis
> 


I would love the help out with the GGI + Java thing. Where can I get
your code? I have done a lot of java coding before but not much GGI
so if you would like any help just email me.

later
Mo DeJong
dejong@cs.umn.edu