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/
