Take a look at Griffon On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:18 PM, James Carman <[email protected]>wrote:
> Jide is very nice, if you want to pay for something. Their licenses > are very reasonable. > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Jeremy > Thomerson<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
