Qt Jambi, Trolltech releases Qt for Java

Hardingfela writes "Trolltech has released a preview of its long awaited Java bindings for Qt 4. "Qt Jambi technology integrates Qt with the Java programming language, providing new possibilities for both Java and C++ programmers. This technology enables Java developers to take advantage of the powerful features of Qt from within Java Standard Edition 5.0 and Java Enterprise Edition 5.0" More information on the Jambi press release and tech details in the Jambi whitepaper. To get your copy sign up to the preview license (final release will be also available under an open source license) and download."

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Finally

[oever]

The combination of fast, good looking Qt widgets, the clean way of writing applications with Qt and the ease of coding that java and Eclipse offer make for a very attractive platform for clean and fast development of graphical applications and great alternative to pure java or mono applications. As long as the Qt library can be easily distributed with the applications that use it, the fact that you're more than one framework should not be a problem.

If version 6 of java will not bring the improvements to the GUI that are promised, Qt + Java is a very attractive alternative for crossplatform development.

Personally, I like Qt's widgets a lot (even though version 4 has a few funny regressions) and the logic used for building the GUI is much nicer than what I know from Swing and AWT. I wish the trolls the best of luck and hope that KDE and free software in general may benefit from this development.

Re:C bindings?

[Anonymous Coward]

+3 Insightful? I'm guessing the ones who modded that aren't programmers.
  GUI programming in C is a *pain*, it's awful beyond words. I hate GUI programming, but python + qt (pyqt) actually works very well for that, Qt with C++ requires that awful moc, but at least it's survivable.
  If the parent knew anything about Qt and C, he wouldn't have suggested it at all.
  For the record, yes, I have done Qt programming with C++ and python, a lot of C coding (for about 10 years), so I'm familiar with all the different aspects in this, unlike, obviously, the parent.

Re:C bindings?

[Bill Dog]

+5 Insightful? I agree that GUI programming in C is a pain (and I speak from past experience on this), but GGP was simply asking a question. How come just because you don't want to do GUI programming in C means that someone else shouldn't be allowed to?

Trolltech is obviously trying to branch out and expand the uses of their toolkit to other popular languages. Java is a no-brainer. I wouldn't be surprised if they targeted C# after that. And support for C, which is still very popular, seems like it could be added via the precompiler that's required for their C++ binding.