Tom Marble wrote: > I agree, competition is good. > > Does Java play as well as it could with ICCCM, X, etc.? It > probably could stand some improvement. But at least there is a *chance* > of the same jar working multi-platform (and multi-vendor, I might add) > as opposed to the SWT-ism's and WebSphere-ism's of Eclipse. > > Does Swing have competition? Certainly. At one level we can talk > about SWT, at another .NET, and yet another AJAX (etc.). > > But just to set the record straight... NetBeans got better when > Steve took over the group. Now Tim's in charge and also doing a fine job. > Having worked for both of them (in their prior gigs) I can say that sometimes > the people make all the difference. > > Regards, > > --Tom > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > Too bad the competition isn't actually prodding them to fix Swing. I now write all of my GUI's in SWT - and am very happy with it. If Sun would stop having a war with Eclipse, they could just bring SWT directly into the platform, and there wouldn't be any issues at all with SWT from platform to platform. That said, I don't really have a problem with SWT now - it webstarts on all platforms - and if I'm not going the webstart route, my ant build script simply kicks out a different build per platform. Dan -- **************************** Daniel Armbrust Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic Rochester daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu http://informatics.mayo.edu/