Happy New Year
It's been a hectic holiday season and posts have been few. But the crunch is on for my Java/C# codevelopment project, so look for more posts soon.
SWT GUI Builder--NOT
I just downloaded the trial version of IBM Websphere Application Studio Developer v5. A few remarks:
0. Version 5? Yeah, right. It's version 2, or maybe version 1.5.
1. Wow, the Swing GUI Builder is SLOOOW on a 500mz machine with a half-gig of ram. THUMBS DOWN.
2. There's no SWT GUI builder that I can find. Am I wrong? Is there one coming? Wasn't this the WHOLE POINT and promise of this tool--freedom from the mind-bending problems of Swing (mainly appearance and speed)? WHEN IT RUNS ON WINDOWS IT HAS TO LOOK LIKE A WINDOWS APP, guys. It just has to, period. If it doesn't, then I and almost everyone else just can't use it. THUMBS DOWN.
3. It's real Eclipsy, as promised. It's like working with Eclipse with a lot of the cool tools that JBuilder includes. THUMBS UP.
4. The toolbar of Jxxxx components is a VERTICAL tool bar, not a HORIZONTAL one at the top. What? Is EVERYONE at IBM who might have caught this smoking crack on their "lunch break?" THUMBS DOWN.
This tool, as it exists, is NOT for mid-level development machines. THUMBS DOWN. By mid-level, I mean "top level a year ago." You need a good 21 inch screen to use it, a 1 gig processor and a gig, probably two gig of RAM. Oh, and 2.5 gig of free disk to download and install the demo. Quien es mas macho?
5. MYSTERY SOLVED. IBM clearly gave away Eclipse so people would get used to its IDE, then quickly get ticked off at its limitations, so that they'd switch to using this BEHEMOTH. It might work, what with the world dividing into warring camps and stuff.
6. The tool is written in Java and SWT!!! THUMBS UP - it actually feels like a Windows application, not a badly-directed, poorly-lit community theater version of a Windows application.
10:39:39 AM 
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