Think you can get your end users to exclaim: "My! What beautiful native-looking Windows apps you build in Java"? A basketful of JGoodies is all you need.
by Laurence Moroney
January 15, 2004
erhaps the single biggest challenge in writing Java applications is dealing with UI issues. Regardless of the application's power and flexibility, people will always want it to look familiar—to look like a Windows application. With JGoodies you can give them what they want, and a whole lot more besides!
Java has never really been a competitor for premium desktop systems. Its very nature being that of write once, run anywhere leads to a lowest common denominator approach. For example, some operating systems support mice with three buttons, some with two and some with only one. For a Java application to run 'everywhere,' it can only support a single mouse button. The extra button functionality that could be available on other systems is lost. There are other user interface widgets and design patterns that are similarly unexploitable, and the ultimate effect is that Java never really penetrated the applications market. Visual Basic reined supreme.
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erhaps the single biggest challenge in writing Java applications is dealing with UI issues. Regardless of the application's power and flexibility, people will always want it to look familiar—to look like a Windows application. With JGoodies you can give them what they want, and a whole lot more besides!
