Rethinking the Java GUI. analysis. Oct 22, 2002 4 mins. Software Development. Will Java fulfill its original mission? Simon Phipps, Sun’s chief technology evangelist, likens Java to a baby duck.

Application GUI components developed using Qt Jambi’s rendering system can augment or replace those based on Java’s Swing/Java 2D framework, and vice verse.

The simple Java source code in Listing 1 can be compiled into Java bytecode with gcj -C HelloWorld.java and interpreted using gij HelloWorld.The same source code can be compiled into a native ...