[aclug-L] Re: Window Managers

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"Bates, Rod" wrote:
> 
> > Now my question; Is there ant reason that a window manager couldn't be
> > written in Java?
> > and if not why?
> >
> >
> Sun's original primary design purpose for Java was for
> downloadable applets embedded in web pages.  That
> meant that the interpreter/environment for the language
> could be made so airtight that you could download and run
> a program from a site that you had no reason to trust, and feel
> confident that it wasn't going to somehow crack your
> machine.  (It also meant 100% portable code was
> required.)
> 
> I would think the restrictions designed to make Java safe
> for running  untrusted programs would be too onerous for
> a window manager. However, people have apparently found
> Java to be a sufficiently better designed programming language,
> compared to C/C++, that it's being considered/used
> with much wider scope than originally intended.
> Java implementations may evolve toward relaxing some
> of the safetly restrictions, which might make it feasible.
> 
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Actually their first intention was set-top boxes, of course they called
it oak back then...

I realize that it's not what Java was intended for i just think it would
be nifty to have a whole window manager that essentialy looked like a
web site (kinda sorta...)

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