Does UIKit work with Swing?
UIKit can create Swing components just like any other Java objects, but it is not specifically designed for creating Swing layouts. For example, it does not know how to added JMenus to a JFrame, or how to make full use of some of the Swing layout managers. It would be quite simple to modify it to correct these problems, and you are certainly welcome to do so. I have no plans to do so myself, however. I regard Swing as an abomination, and don’t want to do anything that could possibly encourage anyone to use it. (Ok, it’s not that bad if you ignore the painfully slow performance, the ludicrous memory requirements, the depressingly badly implemented text editing, the “imitation” components that behave almost-but-not-quite like real native components…except for a few particularly egregious cases that don’t even come up to the level of “almost”…perhaps I had better stop now.
