[luau] java swing over ssh

[Myles Uyema]

This is just X11 forwarding over ssh.  I'm not well-versed on the X11 
protocol, but I think the 'swing widgets' would need to be somehow 
implemented in the X server.  It's understandable that awt is, since X11 
pretty much built on top of it.


On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Charles Lockhart wrote:

> Sorry, should have been more clear.  You know how you can "tunnel" an 
> application using ssh, where you ssh to a linux box, and run, say, 
> gedit, and gedit shows up on your desktop, but it's actually running on 
> that other machine and you can open/edit/save files on that other machine.
> 
> Well, you can do the same thing pretty well with java apps written using 
> awt, but for java apps written in swing, performance, even over a fairly 
> good link, just sucks eggs.  I think the awt widgets are supported, but 
> swing widgets aren't, so swing widgets end up being rendered as bitmaps 
> or something.  So what I'm trying to find out is if anyone is working on 
> supporting swing widgets in the same manner that awt widgets are supported.
> 
> Thanks for the links though, I'll check those out.
> 
> -Charles
> 
> Don Brown wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean but there's this:
> > http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/jssh/ and this: http://www.javassh.org
> > and SSH 2.0 here: http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/
> > 
> 
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