Re: Java Versus gtk

[Gonzalo Aguilar Delgado <gad aguilardelgado com>]

Java has three disadvantages:
        * Is an interpreted language so it can be slow. With compiled versions
of the code you gain speed but swing will not ever be as fast as GTK.

        * It used to have a unstable API, even sun recognizes that. You can do
something with 1.4.1 and would not work with 1.5.2...

        * I hate garbage colectors. Try to stablish thousands of database
conections with JAVA. Or try to manage large amounts of memory objects.
If the garbage collector enters one microsec later you will be in
problems...
        I remeber a project with J2EE in which I had to use a connection pool
because garbage collector exhausted connections of mysql due to update
policy. Connections where waiting for garbage collector to clean them up
after the DAO object is destroyed.

And the last reason:

        * C Language rulez, GTK is easy, stable, powerful and you have the
sources if you miss something...

Make your choice ;-)

> Hello,
>
> I'm considering a project which will run on multiple platforms. To begin 
> with, it should run on both Windows and Linux. Now I know about the 
> development package from Dropline and mingw. Since Java will also run on 
> multiple platforms, what are the advantages and disadvantages of using 
> Java versus gtk+?
>
> Thanks,
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