[ews.eclipse.technology.desk] Re: Q: WORA requirement

[Ian Darwin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Enyedi wrote:

> AWT is an interesting example to get the sense Sun gave to the 
> "Anywhere" part from WORA. AWT doesn't have a tree control. Even if this 
> is an extremely useful and used control, for some strange reasons the 
> AWT team considered it as unavailable on all platforms. That might be 
> true for some obscure platform, but all major widowing systems support 
> it...

Sure they do, in 2005. In 1995 when AWT was being developed, that was 
not the case, nor is the list of platforms the same today: Mac OS 7/8 
are long dead, and OS/2 Presentation Manager is, um, well, oh! where was 
I? :-)

The real problem for AWT is that, once the decision was made to develop 
Swing, the set of AWT has been in maintainance-only mode.