Hi Brandon, I've used Swing, it is not more easy to use as any other modern GUI toolkit, and in addition it is very slow. Further, interfacing Java and C++ via JNI is a pain. Cheers, Fons. Brandon Kohn wrote: > > Why hasn't java/swing been considered for a GUI layer? JNI is quite good, > and programming java GUIs is a joy. Seems to me that this is the most > obvious platform neutral answer to the gui problem (provided all algorithms > are implemented in native c and called via JNI). Are there reasons that Java > has not been considered? > > Brandon > -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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