Re: Admin Interface: Java?
Alvaro Lopez Ortega <alvaro <at> sun.com>
2006-12-01 22:32:12 GMT
Roberto Correa wrote, On 01/12/06 18:41:
> My name is Robert, and I'm a newbie in the list.
Welcome Roberto! It's really nice to see you here
> In the case of administration GUI for Cherokee will be developed in
> Java. What widget toolkit would you use? Swing? SWT?
Actually, we've been thinking of writing a couple of administration
interfaces. I'd implement the first one as a web interface, and the
second one with Swing.
In my opinion the web based one is far more important than the GUI.
In fact, I think that we should target it at first place in order to
release the first 0.6 version as soon as possible (it has been long
time since I branched 0.5 and trunk), and we will have time to write
the second one later on.
> What advantages or drawbacks would you find using one or another?
Well, I can see a couple of advantages of Swing over the rest:
- AWT is simply bad and old; period.
- SWT is a native implementation that, despite the fact that there
are many people who just love it, would make the distribution
much harder for us. Its main point is meant to be a better
performance, although if you test a modern Swing app, like
Netbeans for instance, you will realize that the performance is
pretty reasonable for being a completely cross-platform program.
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Greetings, alo.