Hans Muller is the CTO for Sun's Desktop division. He's been at Sun for over 15 years and has been involved with desktop GUI work of one kind or another for nearly all of that time. He's been involved with the Java project since its earliest days and led the Swing team and later all of the client Java work at Sun.
Nearly a decade ago, when Java was still a fledgling portable software
platform and the Tumbling Duke applet was considered cutting edge, the
members of the newly minted Swing team, including yours truly, took in a
packed JavaOne session given by Sun's JavaSoft president, Alan Baratz. He
told the assembled multitude that our team would be delivering a new GUI
toolkit in just 90 days. Although we'd been working on what was called a
"lightweight toolkit" for some time, he hadn't bothered to mention the new
project deadline to us. Until that moment. If there'd been enough room, we
would have all fallen off our chairs.
A rather limited "0.1" Swing release did debut 90 days later. The fact that
developers not only adopted this early version of Swing, but actually built
appl... (more)
Hans Muller is the CTO for Sun's Desktop division. He's been at Sun for over 15 years and has been involved with desktop GUI work of one kind or another for nearly all of that time. He's been involved with the Java project since its earliest days and led the Swing team and later all of the client Java work at Sun.
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