[Xorg] Server side widgets

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Jul 12 00:49:17 PDT 2004


Roland Mainz wrote:
> What about allowing JAVA applications run within the Xserver ? 

I think the Looking Glass team looked into this, but decided against
it due to the work needed to either make the entire X server MT-safe
or to make the JVM non-threaded.  It's not impossible, just a lot of
work, for not a lot of obvious immediate benefit over just using a
client side JVM.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering




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