[svlug] Java IDE's

[Jay Suttiruttana]

 > The project that I'm working on at my new job is going to have a
 > rather aggressive schedule, and wil involve a GUI on Linux.

If time is not your friend, I suggest you stick with C (or any language 
you're most comfortable with) and used GTK+ to develop the GUI portion 
of the application. Check out a tool called Glade Interface Designer. It 
should be able to speed up your GUI development.

 > As I've never done a GUI, but have heard that Java has become
 > a real language, I'm nominally planning on doing the software
 > in Java. As of yet, I've not written a line of Java, but from
 > what I've read it doesn't seem too difficult to learn if you
 > already know C.

I took several courses in Java for both undergrad and graduate study and 
found the language to be very solid in performance and flexible in 
design/implementation. Java is similar to more C++ than C, because of 
the object oriented concepts. I have never done professional GUI 
development using Java, but I have developed a lot of Java network 
programming. All I can tell you is that it's a lot easy to write complex 
network programming in Java than in C/C++. I assume the same for GUI 
application, but no professional experiences to back up this statement.

Best of luck on your project
Jay :o)



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