[Qt-jambi-interest] Some questions about Qt Jambi

[Bruno Wouters]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the fast response!

Which UI framework do you think has the most secure future in terms of
compatibility with new operating systems and fixing bugs? While searching
the net I found that there were a lot of people saying that Swing isn't
updated for about 10 years or so. Is this true?

I think it will be a choice between SWT or Qt Jambi... Not sure which one to
pick...

The UFaceKit you pointed out also looks interesting but then I still need to
choose a UI framework to start with :-). Will UFaceKit work with things like
charts? Or more advanced stuff like drag & drop?

Kind regards,
Bruno Wouters


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Schindl [mailto:listom at bestsolution.at] 
Sent: dinsdag 29 december 2009 10:45
To: Bruno Wouters
Cc: qt-jambi-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-jambi-interest] Some questions about Qt Jambi

Hi,

Not sure what to suggest when it comes to whether using Qt-Jambi in
commercial product but there are alternatives naturally:

* Swing
* SWT integrates nicely on Win32 and MacOS-X as well as on Linux-Gnome

I can point you also to a project I started some time ago named UFaceKit
[1,2] which is hiding the real toolkit behind a facade and so allows you
to defers the choice of the UI-ToolKit.

LGPL is a quite commerical friendly license and even if you modify
LGPL-Code you only have to contribute back the modified code and NOT
publish your own (but I'm not a lawyer).

It's really a bitty that Nokia took this step and on the other hand
invested into a Qt-eSWT-Port on the other side. Please note eSWT != SWT.

Tom

[1]http://wiki.eclipse.org/UFaceKit
[2]http://tomsondev.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/slides1.pdf

Am 29.12.09 10:20, schrieb Bruno Wouters:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm considering to use Qt Jambi for a new project. Is this a good choice
> knowing that Nokia decided to discontinue development of it? Is the open
> source community large enough to keep it alive/up to date?
> 
> Are there other, better choices then Qt Jambi for a java application
> that is going to be deployed on Windows and Mac OS X? It will be a
> multilingual (also right-to-left languages) application taking care of
> some administrative tasks (quite simple gui).
> 
> And can I use Qt Jambi under the LGPL license (without changing the Qt
> Jambi code) in a commercial application without providing the source
> code of it?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
>  
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Bruno Wouters
> 
> 
> 
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