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Sun to Amp Java for Desktop Performance?

Posted by chrisd on from the slow-sometimes dept.

mactari writes "Java client application developers should take a look at Sun's J2SE Client Developer Survey. Swing's relative slowness has always made a Java app with a GUI look and feel slow, and Sun might finally be doing something about it. Questions on the survey suggest Sun is considering moving away from a crossplatform look and feel (eg, Metal) towards native looks by default. If Sun is going to follow the suit played by IBM's native widget toolkit, SWT, or do things on individual platforms like Apple has done with its hardware accelerated version of Aqua-Swing, Java might finally find its way to becoming a competitor on the desktop."

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  1. Bindings are possible by jaaron · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bindings are possible. For example:

    Java-gnome Just check out google for others.

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  2. You can have it now... by clambake · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go look for other "look and feel" packages like this one...

  3. Re:SWING kicks AWT's ass! by ChannelX · · Score: 3, Informative
    I looked at the survey and I think they're just considering whether to suck up the gtk/KDE L&F, and whether to make that the default L&F. Someone was telling me the Eclipse IDE does this for gtk to good effect.

    Umm...Eclipse uses SWT which uses native UI elements on platforms where it is implemented. The only time it emulates something is if there isn't a native widget.

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