I remember AWT&Swing from the 1.0-1.2 days. heck, I got an A for some project at DeAnza that was an applet for something, maybe a chess board. Circa 1997 I put

I remember AWT&Swing from the 1.0-1.2 days. heck, I got an A for some project at DeAnza that was an applet for something, maybe a chess board. Circa 1997 I put a JRE on a brandable installer CD for a client that used JNI to call Win32 API to write Windows registry entries, make shortcuts and a desktop shortcut basically as an "InstallAnywhere" before it existed. A couple of years later, I wrote a Java to MIPS direct compiler for a compiler course... in both C++90 and Java 1.3.