[rescue] Sun memo regarding Java

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >> FWIW, our shop does some Java, but I haven't noticed that the
> >> development
> >> was all that rapid; in fact, rather the contrary.  Might not be Java
> >> at
> >> fault, of course....
> >
> > Most Java programs don't know how to get development speed from it.
> > Frankly, I'm not sure I do, even though I know it's in there somewhere.
>
>    Eh??  You just...*write* it.  You want a button?  A line of code.
> You want a file chooser widget?  A dozen lines of code.  You want an
> error dialog box with a stop-sign icon?  Three lines of code.

But if you're doing all of this with Swing, it won't exactly be fast.  Add
a few extra lines of code to do it in awt, and you get a little extra
speed.  If you do it in Java2D, it will be much, much faster, but it will
take a lot more code.

Peace...  Sridhar