Re: Java IDE for Swing: nib approach vs code generation?
Re: Java IDE for Swing: nib approach vs code generation?
- Subject: Re: Java IDE for Swing: nib approach vs code generation?
- From: Brad Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:20:48 -0400
- Organization: Virtual School
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:09:31 -0700
Dave Yost <email@hidden> wrote:
IBM's Visual Age appears to use some kind of serialization to remember GUI
structure between runs. I've not dug into it enough to be 100% sure but
its certainly worth a closer look than I've given it.
Its good enough to provide serious competition to vim for this unix guy.
Only problem is IBM reneged on their promise to upgrade the Linux version
to SDK1.2 in Q1 2001, which pretty much removed it from consideration in
my shop.
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I searched and searched and browsed and browsed on the web, but I
couldn't find a lead on this.
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Java IDEs have nice graphical layout tools for Swing objects, but they
store your UI as mountains of Java code (set this, set that, etc.). What
a mess!
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Cocoa's Interface builder stores your UI as an object archive that the
app reads in at runtime (in Java this archive would be a serialized object
stream file). The only manifestation of your UI in your code is some
instance variables and some action methods that you fill in. Much nicer.
And it's been around for over 10 years.
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So my question is this: is there a Java IDE lurking out there (among the
dozens of Java IDEs) that uses Java serialization instead of code
generation to store UI structure data?
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Thanks
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Dave
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