Best Cross Platform GUI Development Tool?

[Vu Pham]

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 18:28 -0500, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Looking for opinions here.
> 
> What is the best tool set for creating cross platform GUIs?  I need
> something that that comes together fairly quickly and can access a
> database backend.  Must run on Windoze (I will develop on linux.)  It
> may be a web based application.  What should I use?  Why?
> 
> There are no right or wrong answers here, I just need to find something
> vaguely familiar that I can throw an application together in a month or
> so.  'C' is my favorite programming language.
> 

It seems to me that "cross-platform" relates very much with Java. And
Java tools that can help creating apps quickly ( relatively ) and that I
've tried are Netbeans ( www.netbeans.org ), Eclipse
( www.eclipse.org ), JDeveloper ( Oracle ) and Idea
( www.jetbrains.com ). All of those tools run fine on both Windows and
Linux. The first three are free, and the last one is not free.

Personally I prefer Netbeans and Idea. As you say, there is no right or
wrong about which IDE is good. Some like Eclipse, some like Netbeans or
others.

All of these tools are very good at debugging.

Not sure about the other tools, but I know Netbeans has profiling tool
that helps you check for performance bottleneck, memory leak ... I think
other tools have profilers also, but I have not tried them.

All of these support both web apps and desktop apps ( I mean the
applications that run locally on your workstations ).


I know JDeveloper and Netbeans have the visual web designers, which
allow you drag and drop components and see how they are displayed on the
web pages, and they also allow you to drag database tables onto web data
grid and bind them together.


Vu