[Info-vax] Developing VMS applications on VMS or on Linux/Windows ?, was: Re: x86 Cross Tools Kit

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/4/2019 1:32 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 3/4/19 10:47 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> That's the inevitable fallout from the server-only strategy, if 
>> developers want GUI-based development tools.  OpenVMS developers have 
>> been command-line, but that approach is fading among developers.  And 
>> having used some of what's available, that command-line approach is 
>> fading with very good reason. Some of the current-generation IDEs are 
>> vastly better than the OpenVMS command-line tools.  And VSI has a pile 
>> of work underway—and a far larger pile pending—to upgrade OpenVMS as a 
>> server, too.
> 
> Out of curiosity, does Java on VMS support graphics?

It does.

Otherwise it would not be Java. AWT and Swing are mandatory parts
of Java.

>                                                    Does it requires
> DECWindows to do that?

Yes.

>                           There is an interesting and quite usable IDE
> written in Java that doesn't consume as much resources as something like
> Eclipse.

Which?

Arne