Java Swing in a Linux embedded system

Question

I need to run a Java Swing GUI application into a Linux Embedded system. Fortunately, it is an i386 system, however it needs to be minimal in terms of size used. What are the minimal requirements of Java Swing? Is it possible to run a java swing GUI without X11? Do you recommend me another alternative for a Java GUI?

Answer 1

Swing itself is built on awt, which in turn has adapters to GDI (on windows) or X (on unix). You could probably write that kind of adapter to interface with a framebuffer on your hardware, but i doubt very much you really want to do that.

So, yes, to run a swing GUI, you need X11 running.