Re: Java GUI -v- .NET Winforms ?

swing is slow, that's all. Now it depends what you want to do with it.
It works great for most apps.
There are not a lot of applications that require too much speed from
swing. I have an application
that handles real time data. Displaying real time data on any GUI is
slow and it's slowing down
the whole app, but it depends how you design the application. It is
memory hungry if you don't use
it right. Swing has more functionality than any GUI toolkit and it is
really easy to develop swing apps
because it gives you total control.

I can't tell you much about Winforms. I know that it doesn't do layouts
well (not too many, anyway).

A Mackie wrote:
> Can anyone give a reasoned response to how a Java UI compares to a .NET
> Winforms UI, or links articles discussing this ? [please, no flame war!]
>
> Typical arguments I hear are about Java UI's are:
>
> "Just never looks quite right" - always slightly different to a "proper"
> windows app.
> Slow and clunky
> Memory hungry
> Not as much functionality
> More difficult to develop
> ...
>
>
> How true these are I don't know, and may be relics of Java's early days. Any
> thoughts on how well Java does UI's these days ?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy Mackie.
.

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