Nic
Thanks for that, based on this maybe I should thow in another option
4/ Kylix frontend running on a Gnome Desktop on Linux App Server x-client
using VNC xserver and VNC clients
has the following
1/ Portable to any client that VNC Supports
2/ Client is Thin (less than 1mb)
3/ Less noisy than X
4/ Delphi RAD
Neven
> I dont like Swing apps (Jbuilder being the exception, tho they have
> rewritten most of the GUI lib's they use), they are usually very ugly,
dont
> follow standard UI methods, and are very, very timeconsuming to build.
They
> also tend to bloat out your ide. Most of the design decisions in SWING
were
> made to allow cross platform deployment, which is all well and good, as
that
> was the original requirement, but who REALLY needs cross platform
> deplyoment? How many times have you said "hell, I wish I could run this
> Order Entry app on a Solaris box, just so I can fire 15K$ at sun for a PC
> that will work about as well (for a single user) as a 1500$ PC."
>
> I think that, like Linux, Java has a place, but its NOT on the desktop -
its
> on the server, running EJB, servlets, JSP, CORBA and the like. It excels
in
> that, just as delphi excels in GUI development and is pretty close to
> useless for the back tier (eg, CORBA back end).
>
> As I said, my opinion. We do provide CORBA with Delphi, but I don't think
> I'd use it, given the option to write a CORBA server in Java instead. Its
> just so much easier and quicker in Java.
>
> For me, the "ideal" desktop (non-browser) app is a Delphi client talking
> CORBA or better yet, EJB, to a Java backend on either a big, grinty
Solaris
> box or a Linux box, which then talks to the database. I've done this once
> already (hi, Kerryland!), and it works rather nicely. For me, a SWING app
is
> just a waste of resources and time - cross platform is a myth (it works,
but
> who REALLY needs it?!), so why not just write it in Delphi and be done
with
> it.
>
> If you really NEED cross platform, write it in HTML, using minimal tags.
Its
> not easy.
>
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