Re: Java programmer lured back by .Net (Questions)

Beatrice Rutger <brutger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess I was a little peeved because I have to maintain two branches of
> code - just because Java has not got its act together yet on the desktop
> side - despite all the years of promise.

<snip>

Have you tried looking at SWT? As a good example, I find Eclipse is one
of the nicest desktop apps I use day-in, day-out. (I gather Swing has
improved significantly in terms of performance over the years, and
every time I use Windows Forms I long for the layout management options
of Java...)

By the way, I wouldn't be so convinced that using your own classloaders
and downloading files over the network will keep your code away from
prying eyes. It doesn't take much work at all to use a different
version of java.lang.ClassLoader which dumps out every class it
loads...

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