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

[Andrew - D. <aj...@on...>]

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Fernando Lozano wrote:
| 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
|


Actually, the thing that I think is missing (or I can't find) is a
substitute for MS Access. I think something could be done that uses
HSQLDB (for example) and a front end is tacked on to it to provide a
schema builder, forms, reports. I have seen some around, but they are
really poor quality and usually cost $.
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