Java swing is NOT a terrible UI. It is easy to use and deploy. I wrote an app one-time and deployed it on Compaq Tru64, OpenVMS, NT/2000, Solaris and on Linux without modification. The JTable class alone is enough of a reason to use swing. It is very easy to create a front end to a database with JDBC. Finding people to maintain and support a deployed app is easy as most college level courses include java. Java is easy to use, lots of documentation and examples, easy to deploy, easy to maintain. That is why it is popular. This is why I suggest to my clients -- and many of my clients have this in place already -- that all new code be written in Java and any migration should be done to Java. Matt Thoren mthoren at mttcc.com Joel Schneider wrote: >On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:53:52PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote: > > >>On Thursday 24 April 2003 11:14 am, Matt Thoren wrote: >> >> >>>Why not Java? >>> >>> >>Personally, java swing sucks. Java has a terrible UI. There are also >>requirements on this current project that prevent usage of Java. >> >> > >$0.02: Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) [1] is an alternative Java UI >toolkit that offers advantages over Swing. SWT was developed as a >component of the open-source Eclipse IDE [2], and has helped make it >possible to port the Eclipse IDE to multiple GUI environments, including >Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, Linux (x86/Motif), Linux (x86/GTK 2), Solaris 8 >(SPARC/Motif), Mac OSX (Mac/Carbon), etc. [3]. > >[1]http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/main.html >[2]http://www.eclipse.org/ >[3]http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-2.1-200303272130/index.php > > > -- -- Matt Thoren MTT Computer Consulting Inc. mthoren at mttcc.com http://www.mttcc.com 612-743-8773 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030428/6655aa5c/attachment.htm