I do a lot of swing using matisse for visual layout and it works fantastic. I then use install4j and create os native looking apps and installers with full os hinting etc (start menu etc).
Bummer is it that matisse is only windows compat. Matisse is bundled in myeclipseide which I feel is reasonably priced. John Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Thomerson <jer...@wickettraining.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:54:47 To: <users@wicket.apache.org> Subject: [OFF TOPIC] Java desktop applications I would like to build a nice-looking java desktop application. I hope that isn't an oxymoron :). I have built some desktop apps before - a lot of command line utilities in various languages, and some GUI apps (perl, java, python, php, even vb (yikes!), c# etc...). The question is - what framework do you use for your UI components and layout on a desktop app? I would like to use Java because I'll be most efficient with it and it will work for me on linux machines and others on Windoze, etc.. But when I've built Swing apps in the past, I have hated having to layout everything in the code and I can never make anything aesthetically pleasing. So.... 1 - do you have any recommendations on a good framework for nice looking desktop apps? 2 - any other recommendations for desktop apps in general? 3 - It should be a lightweight, easy install - and I would prefer to stay away from using the Eclipse framework for building the app (I use the IDE but it doesn't need to be something that heavy for the GUI) 4 - I have even thought about building an app that opens a swing window that contains an embedded browser and jetty servlet running the app so that I can use Wicket. Has anyone thought of or done this before? Basically, it's a CRUD application, but containing personal data that the user should not store on someone else's server. I would use an embedded database that stores the data with encryption. Ideas? -- Jeremy Thomerson http://www.wickettraining.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
