From: Shawn Anderson <shawn42@...>
Date: 2008-03-05T05:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby && Swing || SWT?

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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.

/Shawn

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?
>
> 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/
>
>
>

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