Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:31:42 +0200 From: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> To: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Cc: n j <nino80@gmail.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java on the BSD Desktop? Message-ID: <20070529123142.GF11076@pcjas.obspm.fr> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0705290504k1d8c5981w83848a71b0209161@mail.gmail.com> References: <465B86F9.3000001@voidmain.net> <465BFD6F.5090507@netfence.it> <92bcbda50705290356g70381411m185d9067fa1c3c60@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0705290504k1d8c5981w83848a71b0209161@mail.gmail.com>
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Le 29/05/2007 à 14:04:41+0200, Christian Walther a écrit > On 29/05/07, n j <nino80@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves. I see that it is > > > just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk > > > frontend on it and call it a day. However, I am starting to write a > > > good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about > > > java as the de-facto gui standard on the BSD desktop. > > > > For what it's worth, I think Java should be far more present in the > > FreeBSD at least as far as desktop is concerned and it's a good > > alternative to Qt/Tk/Gtk for GUI applications. Java is a fine serious > > programming language whose strongest selling point a long time ago > > ceased to be "write once, run anywhere". > > > I guess if everyone here on this list gives his/her two cents to this ;-) > topic we're having a nice java advocacy flame war. ;-) ;-) > > Personally I never would install such a software title. I think Java > is dead slow and needs too much resources to perform a specific tasks, Personnally I'm not a developper, I never write a software (more complex thant «hello_world»). I'm sys-admin and I never see a GUI Java software run correctly on all OS. Many commercial software have a GUI java installer, I don't understand this thing. Because It really suck....To do just something like «tar» and «chmod» we don't need a big thing like Java. But on server side, event I don't like theem, the software like Jakarta-Tomcat work fine. There need lots of lots of memory but they work. IMHO if you write a gui frontend to FreeBSD I don't see the advantage to use Java (For install jdk14/15 from source you need linux/sun-jdk/lot_lot_of_memory). You can use something like python if you want objet-programming. Or maybe Ruby. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Observatoire de Paris Meudon SIO batiment 15 Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26 Heure local/Local time: Mar 29 mai 2007 14:26:00 CEST
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