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Re:The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe by asveikau on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:57AM (#23168201)
AWT used native widgets. It looked less alien than Swing.

Swing also had a theme engine (PLAF I believe it was called) that wasn't terrible. It could look like Motif or Windows or Apple had one that looked like Aqua, set as their default back when they bundled JVM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_look_and_feel

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Re:The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe by int_19h on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:18PM (#23170656)
Originally, that platform L&F was pretty bad - for example, fonts were rendered using some bundled engine (FreeType?), instead of the OS text APIs. On Windows, at least, this meant no ClearType, which made all Java apps on XP+ with default settings stick out like a sore thumb.
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