RE: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-Gnome is cool but it's a Bad Thin g.

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

Ed,

Thanks for your feedback.  If you want to write portable
applications in Java then you shouldn't use Java-GNOME.
My goal with Java-GNOME has never been to replace AWT
or Swing.  I am coming at this from the opposite direction.
My goal is to expand the options for developers that
want to develop applications for Gnome.  If you want
to develop applications for Gnome you should be able
to use C, C++, Python, or Java.

I am just a few days away from releasing support for
native gcj compilation.  This will produce binaries from
the Java code and will make the applications even less 
portable.  At the same time, this only makes Java one 
step closer to becoming a "first class" language for 
Gnome development.

-Jeff

> 
> The screenshots are cool but here's why this is a Bad Thing:
> 
> - I write Java so my applications will be portable.  Gnome is
>   not portable.
> 
> - Microsoft did the same thing, tying Java to Windows calls, 
>   and they got their hand slapped.  It was bad then and it's
>   bad now.
> 
> Perhaps I don't understand but it seems to me this should be
> done as UIManager.setLookAndFeel("org.gnome.GnomeLookAndFeel")
> or perhaps by rewriting awk/swing to use gnome.
> 
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