Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Java-gnome vs Swing or other thing

[Skip C. <sco...@gm...>]

Here, here.  My thoughts as well.


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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:13:52 +1000, Andrew Cowie
<an...@op...> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-10 at 16:19 +0300, Oleksiy Puzir wrote:
> > WHY I SHOULD USE JAVA-GNOME TO DEVELOP MY APPLICATION?
> 
> Don't shout.
> 
> It basically boils down to this:
> 
> There is a group of people who want to write GNOME/GTK apps using Java
> in order that they can create applications that work well on Linux,
> specifically on a Gnome desktop. And we are all doing so quite happily.
> 
> java-gnome a Gnome language binding. That's it. That's the job spec.
> 
> Many Java developers, seeing the possibility of writing cross platform
> applications, become obsessed with writing cross-platform applications.
> It tends to mean they have trouble seeing past Swing.
> 
> There are, however, many reasons why someone might want to choose NOT to
> write a cross platform application. One I can think of off the top of my
> head is "I'm an open source software developer, and could give a *beep*
> about Windows". More precisely, I am working on Gnome applications for
> Linux, and so am pleased to have a framework that allows rapid
> application development (Eclipse + Glade + Java-gnome + GCJ) of Linux
> native binaries from my preferred language, Java.
> 
> As for "reasons", well, I've observed the performance of the java-gnome
> language bindings to be fine, and am certain that it will but improve
> over time. Certainly operating directly with native widgets means there
> is none of the widget emulation that Swing and SWT are forced to use.
> [SWT is a very elegant design solution, to be sure, but, well, it lacks
> a good interface designer. Glade is awesome]
> 
> <shrug>
> 
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