create GUI linux application

[Andrew Overholt]

* Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> [2005-05-24 09:44]:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:35:25AM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > > > If it isn't a huge application
> > > > why not try java ? :-)
> > > Because that's pretty iffy in an open source environment right now.
> > We're shipping Eclipse and Tomcat with FC4.  Those are pretty big examples
> > of things that work in a fully open source environment right now.
> 
> Yes, some specific things work great. But are you really saying that in
> general open source Java is ready for prime-time?

It's getting damn close.  I just want to dispel myths that it's totally
unusable.  With more testing and use will come more stability and
completeness (obviously) so if people want to start trying things out
(like, say, the Java-GNOME bindings), please do!

Andrew