
> > What about a KDE or Gnome piece of software?  In
> > fact, I believe that such a
> > project may already be in its infancy...
> 
> Yes, I could be, but no all systems have one of them
> installed or even installable (think not only about
> Linux, but all the platforms in wich Postgres run,
> Windows too)
> Other advantage of the Java/Swing aproach, apart from
> its portability, is that is easy to program in that
> platform. I have programed for KDE and have done a
> little test against both gtk+, gtk--, but Java is
> another level. Suddenly all is easy, you can do what
> you can imagine. I don't want to start a flamewar
> about the best programming language. I only say that
> for this kind of task Java is the only platform in
> wich I feel sure about what can be done and when it
> can be.

Seems IBM and Informix have also come to that conclusion,
since their new DB admin frontends are also in Java.

Andreas

Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:25:34 +0200
Zeugswetter Andreas SB  <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
AW: RE: Universal admin frontend