Java on the BSD Desktop?

[Andrea Venturoli]

Tom Grove wrote:
> I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves.  I see that it is 
> just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk 
> frontend on it and call it a day.  However, I am starting to write a 
> good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about 
> java as the de-facto gui standard on the BSD desktop.

I personally think Java should be restricted to where 
write-once-run-everywhere is really needed.
If I understand it correctly, you are in this case writing something 
that will only work on one platform, so I think it would be better to 
stick to that platform natively.

Just my two Eurocents.

  bye
	av.