Re: XWindows version of Java?

["Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com>]

siegfried wrote:
> I notice the cygwin version of emacs runs in XWindows and is one of the few
> XWindows programs I run frequently on windows.
>
> I assume (I have not tried it yet) I can run the cygwin version of emacs on
> my home windows machine from a remote machine with the xhost and "ssh -X"
> commands. Is this correct?


Should be.  I haven't tried it either.  Give it a shot if you're interested.


> Sun's javaw runs native windows, not xwindows. Is there a way I can run GUI
> java programs on windows using xwindows so they are compatible with xhost
> and "ssh -X"?


Not without a java built to use Cygwin-X, no.


> I've been reading about gcj and that might work but it looks like I'd have
> to recompile everything myself. I want to run eclipse on windows from a
> remote machine and I see in fedora core 4 they have recompiled eclipse with
> gcj. But I was hoping I would not have to recompile eclipse from the source.
>
> Does cygwin have a javax program that runs GUI java programs under xwindows?

Generic answer:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.what-packages>

Specific answer:
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=gcc-java%2Fgcc-java-3.4.4-2&grep=javax>


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