Swing/Graphics2D

[Artur Biesiadowski]

Brian Jones wrote:

> Swing is nearly as big as all of the rest of JDK 1.1, and I think
> newer versions of Swing rely on Java2D as well which is also going to
> be a huge project of its own.

AFAIK, they make only minimal usage of advanced Graphics2D capabilities 
- they have done it for speed (only trivial operations are hardware 
accelerated and they wanted to stay on safe side).

BTW, do you know about ANY real-world program which actually used custom 
Composite implementation ? Or custom Paint implementation ? I'm really 
angry at all this Raster stuff - it makes hardware acceleration of most 
things really hard.

Artur