This is the story of a Mac application developer (okay – it’s
about two of them) who set out on a quest to find an application development
tool based on Java so his boss would let him develop on the Mac platform,
which he loved. There was only one catch – he had to find a tool that
was fast. Traditional Java programming was going to take waaaay too long to
convert the internal custom programs that had been written in an old 4GL. But
the boss still wanted the excellent user interfaces that he was used to
– because our hero was good on the Mac and could make the screens look
“pretty.” If possible – the boss wanted the impossible
– make the application run on a desktop AND over the Web –
“just in case.” Here... (more)