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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/4/2019 1:47 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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?

BTW, note that Eclipse would not run on VMS as it does not use Swing
but a third party GUI library SWT that are only ported to Windows,
*nix (GTK+) and macOS (Cocoa).

Arne