I'm not a huge SWT fan because it requires separate installations on each OS, removing most of the advantages of a write-once run anywhere app. I doubt the long-term advantages of SWT vs Swing - in other words, I think SWT's advantages in performance and footprint are likely to be short-lived, as Swing will likely catch up, and it is basically good enough already. Look and feel concerns do not concern me in the least - I couldn't care less. And spending time rewriting the GUI means not spending time doing something truly interesting.
-Mike On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:42 -0400, Mark Lybarger wrote: > OpenVMS, wow, that brings back some old memories. DCL, COM scripts, stable > as a herd of horses, and even built in file revisions. > > Michael, > > What is it about SWT that you don't favor? It's quite a shame that > eclipse/netbeans decided not to persue a common plugin api. From what I > understand, the eclipse plugins are much easier to put together than a > netbeans. I've only done simple eclipse plugins, and haven't looked at doing > netbeans plugins since the early 3.x releases. > > ~mark > > > On 7/15/05, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes, we use JMeter on HP OpenVMS. > > However, we only use it in non-GUI mode for testing. > > > > Test plans are developed on Windows. This is partly because the VMS > > servers are at a remote location and partly because early versions of > > Java AWT/Swing on VMS were much slower than on a PC. We've not tried > > running Java GUI on recent VMS Java versions. > > > > S. > > On 15/07/05, Michael Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sebb, do you use JMeter on a platform that SWT doesn't support? > > > > > > Just curious. I'm not one who overly favors SWT myself... > > > > > > -Mike > > > > > > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:46 +0100, sebb wrote: > > > > JMeter also supports non-GUI mode - so the separation _has_ to be good > > ! > > > > > > > > S. > > > > On 15/07/05, Peter Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > the separation is pretty clean, so it really is just a matter of > > > > > writing the gui part. > > > > > > > > > > peter > > > > > > > > > > On 7/15/05, Mark Lybarger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > but it is available on the platforms most folks would be using > > jmeter on. i > > > > > > think it's a big dependancy to be dependant on eclipse, but > > > > > > > > > > > > i haven't checked out the gui code for jmeter yet, i guess i was > > looking to > > > > > > get some info on how segregated the gui was from the action/model > > type code. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/14/05, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > One disadvantage of SWT is that it is not available for all the > > OSes > > > > > > > that support Java. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > S. > > > > > > > On 15/07/05, Peter Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > haha, I've been joking about porting jmeter to eclipse for the > > last 2 > > > > > > > > years. unfortunately, I don't have the time to do it, though > > one day > > > > > > > > i would like to. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > peter > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/14/05, Mark Lybarger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > i was just wondering if any of the jmeter folks have > > considered > > > > > > > migrating to > > > > > > > > > a swt interface, and if so, what are the conclusions? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
