Java GUI Toolkits - Swing vs. SWT vs. Jambi

Java GUI Toolkits – Swing vs. SWT vs. Jambi Heinrich Wendel, DLR Simulations- und Softwaretechnik 21. April 2009

Java ist langsam!

Java ist langsam?

http://kano.net/javabench/data

Geschichte

1996: Java 1.0 – Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) (Sun)

1996: Qt 1.0 (Trolltech)

1998: Java 1.2 – Swing (Sun)

2000: Java 1.3 (Sun)

2001: Eclipse 1.0 and Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) 1.0 (IBM)

2004: Java 5.0 (Sun)

2005: Eclipse 3.0 and SWT 3.0 (IBM)

2006: Java 6.0 (Sun)

2007: Qt Jambi 4.3 (Trolltech)

2009: Qt Jambi 4.5, last official release (Nokia)

2010: Java 7.0 (Oracle)?

Funktionen moderner GUI Toolkits

Events

Drag & Drop

Plattform Unabhängigkeit

Internationalisierung

Layouts

Accessibility

2D Drawing API

Threading

IDE Integration (GUI Builder)

Styling with CSS

3D API

Databindings

Application Framework

Widgets, Widgets, Widgets

A hell lot of widgets

Browser, Button, Combobox, ToolBar, DateTime, ProgressBar, Slider, Spinner, Table, Tree, TreeTable, Text, Tabs, Menu, Label, PreferencesPage …

Applications

SWT/JFace

Eclipse and everything around it

RSSOwl

TuxGuitar

…

Swing

Netbeans

IntelliJ

JEdit

JXMLPad

JFreeChart

PPP

…

Qt Jambi?

http://dist.trolltech.com/developer/download/webstart/index.html

AWT / Swing

AWT

Native implementation of few basic widgets

Swing

Emulation of more widgets

Features

java.applet

java.awt

java.awt.dnd

java.awt.event

java.awt.font

java.awt.geom

java.awt.image

java.awt.print

javax.swing

javax.swing.border

javax.swing.filechooser

javax.swing.table

javax.swing.text

javax.swing.tree

javax.swing.undo

SWT – Overview

Concept

Uses native widgets => platform dependent parts

Emulation if native not available

Can be used without Eclipse!

Features

Drag‘n‘Drop

Events

Layout

Graphics

Print

JFace

Concept

Based on SWT

MVC everywhere

A lot of additional widgets

Features

Actions

Wizards

Resources

Text

Viewers

Operation

Preferences

Window

Data bindings

Qt Jambi

Ressource Management

Signal & Slots

Layout Management

Style Sheets

Qt Designer / Linguist

Webkit

Multimedia (Phonon)

XML

JDBC

Qt Concurrent

AWT/SWT Bridges

Qt Jambi Generator

http://www.qtsoftware.com/files/pdf/qt-jambi-4.4-whitepaper

Qt Jambi – Events slider.addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() { public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) { spinner.setValue(slider.getValue()); } }); spinner.addChangeListener(new ChangeListener() { public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent e) { slider.setValue((Integer)spinner.getValue()); } }); slider.valueChanged.connect(spinBox, "setValue(int)"); spinBox.valueChanged.connect(slider, "setValue(int)");

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