RE: Eclipse

> From: Buck Calabro
>
> Specifically, I am confused by the phrase "platform that Eclipse
> supports".
> I can clearly run Java thick client applications on the iSeries,
> but Eclipse
> does not run on iSeries.

No, you can only run the server portion of a thick-client program on the
iSeries.  The client portion requires a platform with a native GUI.


> If you meant "platform that has a JVM", then I
> already said that, which just confuses me more.  Mind you, I'm easily
> confused these days...

Swing programs can run anywhere there is a JVM with a native GUI.  Swing is
the "standard" GUI for Java, and you can develop Swing applications in the
Eclipse IDE.  But you can also develop SWT applications in the IDE, and
that's the crux of this discussion - the SWT GUI, which is different from
and in some ways much nicer than Swing.

> Are you agreeing with me that Eclipse is a development tool, or are you
> explaining to me that Eclipse is a required run-time environment,
> needed by a (certain type of) Java thick client?

The SWT components, which are shipped as part of Eclipse, are required to
run SWT applications.  You do not need the whole Eclipse platform, just the
SWT components.  But there's a one-to-one correspondence - everywhere SWT
is, Eclipse is.  So, you can say that SWT applications will run everywhere
Eclipse does.

Does that make it clearer?

Joe