At work, I'm using the Eclipse RCP, and unfortunately, not only is it a huge learning curve, but good up to date documentation is somewhat scarce. For a small app, it's much easier to just write it in Swing.
In addition to the ones you mentioned, I believe Netbeans also has an RCP framework, though I haven't used it.
On 10/31/06, Mitch Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm a low-level OS-type guy with a reasonable amount of Java knowledge. However, I'm a beginner at things like GUIs and Swing. I have an idea for a Java Application that I would like to develop. It will a standalone program that runs on a single machine and must have a reasonably good GUI.I've been teaching myself Swing, and all that stuff is very cool. But I find myself having to write too much stuff from scratch that I know has been done before. Plus my framework stuff doesn't look very nice! I need an Application Framework to hang my code on.I stayed up late last night (too late according to my wife!) searching the Web, and I found a few candidates: Aloe, JSR 296, JGoodies, Eclipse, XUI. There are also a whole host of other frameworks (too many!) that are targeted more at Web-type applications (AJAX, JLense, Radicore, etc.). I don't think I'm ready for those yet. But then I don't know, as I will want to learn Web App development eventually.Anyway, does anyone have experience with those that I mentioned or others that I don't know about yet? I want to be able to quickly and easily prototype my ideas. I'm looking for something that helps me with the following kinds of things:- Error/Exception handling- Logging (of events and special conditions)- Menus, buttons, controls- Window management (changing fonts and styles)- Look and Feel management (I want to try different L&Fs to see what I like)- Tables of data, sortable in different ways, and editable- Printing facilities for reports- Multi-threading (kicking off a background task, and updating the GUI with progress)- Copy/Paste- Message boxes- File access- PropertiesThe one thing I don't need is a database. My data is reasonably small, so I plan to just serialize the objects into a file and reload them into memory whenever the App starts up. That is actually the kind of code that I am pretty good at. It is the GUI stuff that gives me fits.I'm using Eclipse as my IDE, and I especially like the idea of actually using Eclipse as the framework itself (RCP). But that sounds like a huge learning curve and perhaps overkill, and I want to have something working soon in my spare time.Anyway, I suppose if I spent several weeks with each of the above technologies, I could eventually figure out which one meets my needs best. But I don't want to do that right now (lazy me!). So, I'm looking for advice from those who have more experience in this area.
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