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

[Mark H. <mh...@ti...>]

Please feel free to modify the page on the website if you think it needs better
explanation.

Quoting Skip Coon <sco...@gm...>:

> Here, here.  My thoughts as well.
>
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> scoon
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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>
> >
> > AfC
> > Sydney
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Frederick Cowie
> >
> > OPERATIONAL DYNAMICS
> > Operations Consultants and Infrastructure Engineers
> >
> > http://www.operationaldynamics.com/
> >
> >
> >
>
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