I'm looking for advice on GUI toolkits for cross-platform development / deployment, especially in the context of JRuby[0].
Now, that having worked with JRuby yet, I'd like to know how your experiences are with using JRuby in larger non-Rails projects, especially when developing GUI applications.
What are your experiences in that regard? How does that influence deployment across different operating systems (I'm mostly concerned about Mac OS X deployment. The currently used GUI toolkit (GTK2) is, from what I have gathered not trivially available on Macs, and I'd prefer to distribute the application I'm working on[1] in one neat package for everybody, especially Mac OS X end-users.
So, the long and short of it?
Have you developed Ruby applications using JRuby with Swing[2]? With SWT[3]? Both?
What's your experience when using these toolkits?
How easy (or painful) is deployment to the Mac?
In an ideal world, we'd distribute RSRCG as an all-in-one installer, with no external dependencies. How easy is that to achieve using Java?
I have used jruby to build a medium sized swing app. I found it very easy to
write and deploy. You can wrap it up into a single jar file and wrap that
in a .app file for mac os x. For everyone else, you can simply give them
the executable jar.
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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Phillip Gawlowski < cmdjackryan@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hello, list.
I'm looking for advice on GUI toolkits for cross-platform development /
deployment, especially in the context of JRuby[0].
Now, that having worked with JRuby yet, I'd like to know how your
experiences are with using JRuby in larger non-Rails projects,
especially when developing GUI applications.
What are your experiences in that regard? How does that influence
deployment across different operating systems (I'm mostly concerned
about Mac OS X deployment. The currently used GUI toolkit (GTK2) is,
from what I have gathered not trivially available on Macs, and I'd
prefer to distribute the application I'm working on[1] in one neat
package for everybody, especially Mac OS X end-users.
So, the long and short of it?
Have you developed Ruby applications using JRuby with Swing[2]? With
SWT[3]? Both?
What's your experience when using these toolkits?
How easy (or painful) is deployment to the Mac?
In an ideal world, we'd distribute RSRCG as an all-in-one installer,
with no external dependencies. How easy is that to achieve using Java?
I'm looking for advice on GUI toolkits for cross-platform development / deployment, especially in the context of JRuby[0].
Now, that having worked with JRuby yet, I'd like to know how your experiences are with using JRuby in larger non-Rails projects, especially when developing GUI applications.
While it is still under development and pre-1.0, I do not think there is a better library to help you build sophisticated cross-platform Swing apps with JRuby.
I'm working on a fairly complex desktop app now, and with Monkeybars I am nearly oblivious that there is Java or Swing lurking underneath.
While it is still under development and pre-1.0, I do not think there is a better library to help you build sophisticated cross-platform Swing apps with JRuby.
I'm working on a fairly complex desktop app now, and with Monkeybars I am nearly oblivious that there is Java or Swing lurking underneath.
