Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 7th Dec 2007 06:25 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Jambi ships as a single Java library, or JAR (Java Archive) file, plus a handful of tools, including an interface layout and design tool, and an Eclipse plug-in. Trolltech uses its vaunted Qt C++ library as the GUI engine and puts Java wrappers around it. This approach uses the JNI (Java Native Interface) to call the necessary functions from Java. More here.
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2006-02-12
well I'm not sure how this is considered news when jambi has been around for over 6 months and was announced even earlier than that. It's nice to get another GUI toolkit for Java but I am not sure how many companies would actually consider paying for it. The truth about java is that both of the major GUI libraries are free while this is not at all the case with c++. Also most of the java developers write server applications that usually do not require a GUI. So paying for a GUI library does not fit very well with the general Java atmosphere. That said i believe Qt to be one of the most mature and feature rich libraries atm ... but I also hate wrapper classes
Anyways kudos to Trolltech for the effort.