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Sun is plannon on enhancing Java to bring more Visual Basic-like features on board. Good show, most definately needed. Hope they introduce some relatively cheap brain dead easy GUI designer, unless there is one out there I have just missed.

Posted by fozbaca on March 18, 2003 9:41 AM |

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I've been using JBuilder, from Borland. Actually does a pretty good job of not only laying out GUIs, but letting you switch back and forth between the actual Java/AWT/Swing code, the GUI layout tool, the docs, and the UML. I'm using the eval version under VMWare for a school project, and it performs decently. Just make sure JBuilder doesn't swap. No idea what pricing is like.

Posted by: Wim | March 18, 2003 11:14 PM

Oh, and Borland has Java equivalents of many of the Delphi components... so the networking components, data bound controls, and so forth.



Also check out JCom, the Java-COM bridge... so that you can call COM/VB objects from Java.

Posted by: Wim | March 18, 2003 11:16 PM

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