#1 IrLAP uses Swing timers

[Mitch Patterson]

IrLAP uses javax.swing.Timer to implement timeouts and
watchdogs. Although this implementation works, it suffers from
two shortcomings:

* The Blackdown port of Java 2 to Linux is missing some font
configuration. The first time a timer fires, it throws lots of exceptions about the missing fonts. This is slow and can interrupt
the state machine.

* Reliance on Swing limits JRed to Java 2 platforms, which runs
counter to the design goal of running everywhere.