Phlip said:
Java Engineers:
And who invented Swing? By "invented" I mean the founder. Linus Torvalds
invented Linux, and now everyone else maintains it...
A friend of mine worked at a company called Lighthouse Design between
the release of Java 1.0 and the release of Swing 1.0. He was working on
a Java application which he was unable to discuss at the time. He told
me that there was a Java Application Framework named Swing, which was in
development as a sub-project of their application development. In other
words, they were developing the application using Swing before Swing was
released. It sounded like Swing was being developed by both SUN and
Lighthouse.
The following quote from the April 1997 SunWorld indicates that
engineers from Netscape and IBM were also involved in the creation of
Swing 1.0.
"Sun's work with Netscape will result in the Java Foundation Classes
(JFC) libraries that will significantly extend the graphical user
interface (GUI) side of the language. Called the "Swing Set" by Java
creator James Gosling, the JFCs are a fusion of JavaSoft's
oft-criticized Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) with the more
full-featured IFCs. Sun says that engineers from its July acquisition of
Lighthouse Design, along with staff from Sun, Netscape, and IBM will
participate in the development of the JFCs at JavaSoft's Cupertino, CA
offices."
http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-04-1997/swol-04-javaone.html
Like all of the other OO Application Frameworks I am familliar with
(MacApp, MFC, PowerPlant), the initial version of Swing was created by a
group of engineers, not by a single engineer.
In fact, in the case of Swing, several companies were involved in the
creation, which is very unusual. Apple Computer Inc. developed MacApp,
Microsoft Corp. developed MFC, and Metrowerks developed PowerPlant.
For more on OO Frameworks, check out this page...
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/CACM-frameworks.html
--Dave
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