GUI Designer For Eclipse

Flu writes "Finally, a free (as in speech and beer) and official GUI designer has been released for Eclipse! Just a few days before the Eclipse 3.0 M5 build was released, a complete plugin for creating GUI's was released as well, as one of the Eclipse tools projects. Check it all out on the official site for the Visual Editor Project. At last, the (probably) best free IDE for Java (and C) contains a GUI editor! Personally, I intend to put up an IBM logo to worship next to my desk, as a thank you for the Eclipse! :-)"

Comments

Re:Was supporting open source Lou Gerstner's idea?

[M1FCJ]

Recently, a CEO asked me what I thought of Microsoft's .NET. I told him the biggest drawback was that using .NET means that you are a partner of Microsoft. (The second is that .NET programs are easily de-compiled; other people can easily examine your business logic if they have a copy of your program.)

Although I agree with some of the things you wrote, it is obvious that you have never worked with Java... It is trivial to decompile java classes.

Both IBM and Sun want you to support them. Microsoft just doesn't care as long as the unwashed masses pay money for crappy apps.

Re:CDE???!!!

[chaotica1974]

CDE? You may have been misinformed. Eclipse supports many platforms. The windows platform is built directly ontop of the Win32 API, no MFC or extra crap as AWT is. The Linux platforms include a GTK version. Not sure about the Mac version

Eclipse is hugely underrated

[Anonymous Coward]

IDEs tend not to get much play in the linux world, but I have found that Eclipse is as good as any I have used. I think this is a hugely underrated project that continues to have a huge impact.

Call me old fashioned, but...

[jmccay]

I think any "visual" type product should include screen shots, and I could not find anything similar to that on the linked page. Oh course, I might be missing something! Now back to my KDevelop update & upgrades...