From owner-freebsd-java Fri Feb 19 18: 0:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca (stcgate.statcan.ca [142.206.192.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9281D10E6E for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeays@statcan.ca) Received: from stcinet (stcinet.statcan.ca [142.206.128.146]) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.9.1/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA26829 For ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:07:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from statcan.ca by statcan.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA07123; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:00:21 -0500; sender jeays@statcan.ca Message-ID: <36CE170E.3F11D82D@statcan.ca> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:59:42 -0500 From: Mike Jeays Organization: Statistics Canada X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: somewhat new to java questions References: <36CDB479.65A0EFC6@chdev.com> <199902200138.SAA22208@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I get the feeling that the Java Emperor has no clothes. The amount of code you need to write to do almost anything in terms of a GUI implementation in Java seems to be much larger and harder to write and understand than in TK/TCL. This example of a MessageBox seems quite intimidating! Furthermore, the performance seems much worse, seen from my perspective of FreeBSD, Java 1.1 and Swing compared with TK/TCL 8.0. And inter-platform compatibility, at least between Unix and Windows, seems about equivalent. What am I missing? (No, its not a troll. I am genuinely puzzled.) -- Mike Jeays : System Development Division, Statistics Canada 14-O R.H. Coats Building, Holland Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6 Voice (613)-951-9929 FAX 951-0607 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message