One step forwards...

Based on the helpful comment on my last post, I can run IKVM against 2.0 assemblies, but hit a different obstacle -- a critical failure linking against the J# runtime, leading to a bug report.

It seems to run OK auto-binding to the OpenJDK, but then I need to frob the reference somehow. Perhaps it is back to the scala-net class loader issue...

Le sigh

Later...

I wondered. We won't have much of Swing, but do we have enough of AWT to run the GWT? So I converted TestGadget.jar and gwt221.jar and put all the images and .dlls into the same folder and ran it and...

>TestGadget.exe
Exception during event dispatch:
cli.System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented.
        at cli.ikvm.awt.NetComponentPeer.createImage(Unknown Source)
        at java.awt.Component.createImage(Component.java:2522)
        at dtai.gwt.Gadget.createImage(Gadget.java:2045)
        at dtai.gwt.ImageGadget.validateImage(ImageGadget.java:255)
        at dtai.gwt.ImageGadget.paintForeground(ImageGadget.java:283)
...

and while much of the applet showed, the (re-)paint behaviour was terrible, and the applet could easily get into a state where it was spinning at almost 100% CPU.

Le sigh²