Name: lb39792			Date: 11/11/99



The current AWT focus subsystem in woefully inadequate. It suffers from major 
design and API problems, as well as over a hundred open bugs. Many of these bugs 
are caused by platform inconsistencies, or incompatibilities between the native 
focus system for heavyweights and the Java focus system for lightweights. 
Developers do not have access to a comprehensive focus specification, nor does 
the AWT team have any substantive documentation of the implementation. 
We propose to address these problems in the following way : 

     Documenting the existing focus implementation, both from an internal and 
           external view point. 
     We will compose a detailed, formalized focus specification,  which 
           addresses the shortcomings of the existing focus APIs. 
     Development of the specification will be accompanied by construction of  
           native, proof-of-design prototypes. 
     We will proceed to implement this new specification as completely as 
           possible. 

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