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I am playing around with jruby + swing right now, in particular writing a GUI agnostic
toolkit - a bit similar to glimmer. My idea is to abstract things into e. g. "Button.new"
being valid for all main use cases: ruby-gtk3 right now, hopefully ruby-tk eventually,
ruby-libui-ng, the web (via objectified HTML tags, e. g. able to treat HTML tags as
objects), perhaps ruby-SDL (via gosu) and so forth. Anyway.
Java + Swing may not be the most elegant toolkit and it is a bit messy too, but it
works out-of-the-box, which is great.
One thing that is a bit confusing is that we have AWT as well as swing on top of it.
The namespace we see here used for swing is:
Java::JavaxSwing::JFrame
Java::JavaxSwing
So, JavaxSwing.
For Awt it is:
Java::JavaAwt::Frame
Java::JavaAwt
In particular for Awt I found it a bit confusing that "Java" is repeated twice,
e. g.
Java::JavaAwt
Why isn't it:
Java::Awt
But looking at Swing, it is also a bit confusing:
Java::JavaxSwing
Why is it Javax there? Why not Java? And why isn't it:
Java::Swing
Now, I assume you guys had some kind of reasoning about this.
Perhaps:
Java::Swing
Java::Awt
may clash with something else. I actually had a name clash elsewhere,
where I had defined:
Widgets::Frame
which conflicted with, I think, awt Frame (I think java_import may have
pulled in some prior name or alias, e. g. if one were to do "include Java").
Anyway, I am mostly just curious about the naming choices here, not
necessarily meaning that anything should change. Has there been some
rationale about the name choices used? My initial attempt was to e. g.
try something like:
Jawa::Awt::Frame
which did not work as it is instead:
Java::JavaAwt::Frame