Re: GUI Interface

Tony Caduto wrote:
> Jim Wilson wrote:
>>
>> Those Windows developer tools must be working really well
> How right you are Jim, far superior and more productive than anything
> available on
> Linux at this time, though the netbeans IDE comes close, to bad Java is
> slow for
> almost all desktop applications.
> One example is LimeWire, while it works well, it takes forever to load and
> the UI seems a little sluggish compared to a native compiled application.
>

You live in an interesting world... meanwhile, I'm here in the real
world, using Eclipse - the best IDE I've ever used to develop java
applications. Oh, wait, Eclipse is written in Java? I didn't think it
was possible to write good apps in java? Certainly better than visual
studio (and yes, I have to use both - eclipse is a far better IDE in my
opinion). Oh, and I can run eclipse on my linux desktop as well as my
windows desktop? Thats just cool. Oh, and my next machine? Definitely
a Mac. And it woks there too - just like all of my SWT apps do.

I will admit, it is rather easy to write slow java swing applications
There are a lot of poor ones out there. Its a shame that Sun botched
swing so badly, and have never repaired it properly. Its not impossible
to write fast, responsive apps in swing, it just takes skilled
developers. And its a pain.

However, now with the emergence of SWT and modern JVM's - there is no
reason for your java GUI to be any slower than anything else. The only
excuse for a slow java app these days is the quality of the code that it
is built with. And you can write a bad, slow app in any language.

Oh, and to get back on topic a bit more - DBVisualizer is also a nice
database GUI (written in Java, by the way) that is very fast,
responsive, and cross platform.

http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/

Its also rather handy if you have to deal with 5 different types of
databases on a daily basis, since it handles them all.

Dan

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Daniel Armbrust
Biomedical Informatics
Mayo Clinic Rochester
daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu
http://informatics.mayo.edu/