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I am in the process of developing an application in Swing / J2EE as an
alternative to an application that is terminal based (like Edit in
MS-DOS etc).

I am aware of the benefits intuitively, but would be interested to see
if anyone has material that makes an objective case for a swing based UI
vs terminal based.

John

"John" <no@email> wrote in message
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> I am in the process of developing an application in Swing / J2EE as an
> alternative to an application that is terminal based (like Edit in
> MS-DOS etc).
>
> I am aware of the benefits intuitively, but would be interested to see
> if anyone has material that makes an objective case for a swing based UI
> vs terminal based.
>
> John

Do you sell hardware too?

John wrote:
> I am aware of the benefits intuitively, but would be interested to see
> if anyone has material that makes an objective case for a swing based UI
> vs terminal based.

Swing is part of J2SE. However, the terminal I/O capabilities of Java
are so bad that you can't do anything more complex than scrolling
pick-a-number user interfaces without platform-specific 3pp libraries.

/Thomas

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