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
> - Properties
>
> The 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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