Gettin regular Python and JPython to communicate interproces

Bob Horvath bob at horvath.com
Tue May 18 14:58:10 EDT 1999


"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:

> Bob Horvath writes:
> >interested in that Swing then becomes an option.  If I can learn only one
> >GUI, then Swing would probably be of more use to me, as then I could
> >leverage that knowledge when writing Java, or even if I wanted to do some
> >JPython applets.
>
>         Note that no browsers currently come with Swing, so writing
> applets using Swing is impractical, unless you have the user add
> swing.jar to the jar files for their browser or download the 1.4Mb of
> Swing code when running the applet.  It's highly aggravating, because
> Swing is much more flexible than AWT, but AWT is really your only
> choice when writing applets.
>

For our intranet, I was thinking this might not be a problem due to the speed
of the network, and the fact that most people are running Netscape 4.5.  I
thought 4.5 had Swing, but now from reading some stuff,  I am no longer sure.





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