Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-GNOME thoughts

[Fernando L. <fer...@lo...>]

Hi there,

> | You know what would be cool? If we got ourselves a killer app
> | written using Java-GNOME. An app everybody wants. It would be
> | beneficial for both the Linux, GNOME, and Java communities on so
> | many levels. Let's hope it happens.
> |
> | Elias

I think most "killer apps" for a desktop were already made. I'd love to 
see Java-Gnome popular for developing information systems and 
line-of-businness apps, in place of Swing. This is what Linux and Java 
miss today: something to fill the role of VB, Delphi or PowerBuilder. 
Rich UIs, easy but powerfull language, with performance. Java is the 
language that can do that, and GTK+ is the toolkit. Something 
integrating Eclipse and Glade would fill the gap, but them comes the 
main competition: SWT.

It would also be important to have Java-Gnome (actually the Java-GTK+ 
portion) ported for Windows, preferably using GCJ instead of a Sun JVM. 
So any Java-Gnome app would run on a 100% free environment, and still be 
cross-plataform.


[]s, Fernando Lozano