From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2007-08-14T23:57:48+09:00
Subject: JRuby and Netbeans Matisse GUI builder

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Hello everyone!

Netbeans 6 adds some excellent Ruby/JRuby support and it's quite easy to
create swing GUI components
directly in JRuby code now. The Matisse GUI builder produces Java code that
looks like it could be
fairly easily converted to Ruby code, making Netbeans a possible way of
developing desktop GUI apps
in Ruby.

Has anybody thought about writing a program that can convert Matisse's
output to Ruby? Or possibly
extending Matisse to support Ruby code generation directly? It looks like
that support may be added
by Sun anyway at a later stage, but perhaps someone would like to start
working on a head start.

I am thinking of looking at the code but was wondering if I'd be duplicating
effort.

Les

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