From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-03-05T04:52:28+09:00
Subject: JRuby && Swing || SWT?

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?

Regards,
Phillip

Footnotes:
[0] http://jruby.codehaus.org/
[1] http://rubyforge.org/projects/rsrcg/
[2] http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/swing/
[3] http://www.eclipse.org/swt/