Evaluating Java AWT for Cross-Platform Java Game Development

Abstract

This paper extends the research of CYC Window Toolkit (CWT) [11] to other environments in two aspects. First, we evaluate the rendering performance of Java AWT in most commonly used JREs on four operating systems (OSs), including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Fedora Core and Mac OS. The evaluation results indicate that the performance inconsistency of Java AWT also exists among the four OSs, even if the same hardware configuration is used. Second, we design an OpenGL version of CWT, named CWT-GL, to take advantage of modern 3D graphics cards. The results show that CWT-GL achieves more consistent and higher rendering performance in JRE 1.4 to 1.6 on the four OSs.