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From: Wolfgang Jeltsch <jeltsch@tu-cottbus.de>
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Subject: Re: GUI toolkit for Ada again (Java with jgnat?)
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:58:04 +0200
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Hello,

> Has anyone considered using Java bytecode and compiling it using the Ada95
> JGnat compiler?
> This would solve the cross-platform problem quite easily.

This would also produce software which is so slow that it is in my opinion 
not usable. (Of course this depends on the VM you use.)
At the moment I develop a Java-Swing application for my university. I use 
the Java 2(TM) SDK, version 1.3.1. If I see how slow this application runs 
I just wonder why anybody uses Java at all.

> [...]

Wolfgang