Hi,
I have worked with VB6 & Windows forms VB.NET. I always felt good about
the ease of use of VB to create windows forms/desktop application. I
recently started to learn about Java GUI applications using Swing API.
So im interested in knowing the benifits/drawbacks of swing over the
VB6/ Windows forms. Is swing better than VB6??? Does swing has many
controls like VB6. Is there any difficult in swing when compared to
VB6??

Topic of interest: Java GUI(Swing) VS Visual Basic (VB6 and Windows
forms in .NET)

I can get these differences in the web. But i would like to get the
opinion of programmers. 
What do you think??

-Sundar

"Sundar" <sundar22in@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>Topic of interest: Java GUI(Swing) VS Visual Basic (VB6 and Windows
>forms in .NET)
You seem to be asking for a comparison between an Integrated
Development Environment (Visual Studio) and a set of Java library
routines (Swing). In order to compare Java GUI development with VB you
first have to select some tools. I have written something you might
find helpful here <http://ide.profectus.com.au>.

> You seem to be asking for a comparison between an Integrated
> Development Environment (Visual Studio) and a set of Java library
> routines (Swing).

No, Iam not looking for comparison of IDE. Iam looking at the
comparison of the technology.

Sundar wrote:
>>You seem to be asking for a comparison between an Integrated
>>Development Environment (Visual Studio) and a set of Java library
>>routines (Swing).
> 
> 
> No, Iam not looking for comparison of IDE. Iam looking at the
> comparison of the technology.
> 

I googled for "VB vs Java Swing" and got

http://theopensourcery.com/vbjava2.htm
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/java/news/farley_0800.html

I don't know about you, but I find newsgroups like this much more useful 
for specific questions than for very general questions.

"Sundar" <sundar22in@gmail.com> wrote:

>> You seem to be asking for a comparison between an Integrated
>> Development Environment (Visual Studio) and a set of Java library
>> routines (Swing).
>
>No, Iam not looking for comparison of IDE. Iam looking at the
>comparison of the technology.
That's a big ask. I have no idea how to compare a multi-platform
windowing system like Swing to accessing MS Windows system calls using
VB. Does VB come second because it does not work under Linux or does
it come first because it provides direct access to MS Windows?