> > What does the app do?!
>
> GUI Database App ie a booking system etc
How much data entry is there?
>
> > I'd not touch 2 with a 50 foot barge pole.
>
> Now this is interesting the 'Java Man' bagging Java
> Can you eludidate as to why?
BTW, this is IMO, not the opinion of my employer etc etc etc.
I dont like Swing apps (Jbuilder being the exception, tho they have
rewritten most of the GUI lib's they use), they are usually very ugly, dont
follow standard UI methods, and are very, very timeconsuming to build. They
also tend to bloat out your ide. Most of the design decisions in SWING were
made to allow cross platform deployment, which is all well and good, as that
was the original requirement, but who REALLY needs cross platform
deplyoment? How many times have you said "hell, I wish I could run this
Order Entry app on a Solaris box, just so I can fire 15K$ at sun for a PC
that will work about as well (for a single user) as a 1500$ PC."
I think that, like Linux, Java has a place, but its NOT on the desktop - its
on the server, running EJB, servlets, JSP, CORBA and the like. It excels in
that, just as delphi excels in GUI development and is pretty close to
useless for the back tier (eg, CORBA back end).
As I said, my opinion. We do provide CORBA with Delphi, but I don't think
I'd use it, given the option to write a CORBA server in Java instead. Its
just so much easier and quicker in Java.
For me, the "ideal" desktop (non-browser) app is a Delphi client talking
CORBA or better yet, EJB, to a Java backend on either a big, grinty Solaris
box or a Linux box, which then talks to the database. I've done this once
already (hi, Kerryland!), and it works rather nicely. For me, a SWING app is
just a waste of resources and time - cross platform is a myth (it works, but
who REALLY needs it?!), so why not just write it in Delphi and be done with
it.
If you really NEED cross platform, write it in HTML, using minimal tags. Its
not easy.
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