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Jeff Home
Jeff Home

Reputation: 21

Java projects without swing

I'm quite familiar with Java and I would like to work on a project on my free time but for some reason, I just hate having to work with Java GUIs. I'm wondering what kind of Java technologies are available out there that I can use for starting a non-GUI project.

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1750

Answers (8)

Chris Dennett
Chris Dennett

Reputation: 22731

SWT is a popular GUI library (used in projects such as Eclipse IDE and other standalone projects) which uses native windowing components such as Win32 on Windows and GTK+ on Linux. It achieves this through an abstraction layer with a standard library available for supported platforms. http://www.eclipse.org/swt/

For non-UI stuff (which the OP seems to be requesting now), there's CHARVA, which is a Java framework for presenting a "graphical" user interface, composed of elements such as windows, dialogs, menus, textfields and buttons, on a traditional character-cell ASCII terminal.

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CHARVA screenshots:

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(source: pitman.co.za)

Upvotes: 6

Pierre
Pierre

Reputation: 35276

Java Curses: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javacurses/

The Java Curses Library (JCurses) is library for developing text terminal based applications using Java programming language. It is implemented as a Windowing toolkit similar to AWT, but built upon the UNIX "curses" windowing system.

Upvotes: 1

Enrique
Enrique

Reputation: 10127

If your project is going to use a GUI you can use JavaFX for the view and use pure Java for the logic

You can also use FendGUI which includes: buttons, sliders, trees, text areas, frames, tabs, etc.

Upvotes: 1

Pascal Thivent
Pascal Thivent

Reputation: 570515

Maybe have a look at Griffon for a groovier experience (and if appropriate for your application).

Upvotes: 1

perimosocordiae
perimosocordiae

Reputation: 17817

There's nothing wrong with CLI (command-line interface) apps, especially if the project is just for your own use. I like to prototype all my Java projects with CLI's first, because they're flexible and easy, and only once I've got things working do I consider adding a GUI.

Upvotes: 0

cupakob
cupakob

Reputation: 8541

You can try google web toolkit (GWT). And the ExtGWT lib is also an try worth.

Upvotes: 0

duffymo
duffymo

Reputation: 308938

If you deploy on the web, there's JSP. You can use Flex and Blaze DS as well.

Upvotes: 1

Roman
Roman

Reputation: 66196

Java Qt Binding

SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit

SWT is an open source widget toolkit for Java designed to provide efficient, portable access to the user-interface facilities of the operating systems on which it is implemented.

Upvotes: 2

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