Seriously Impressive: Sun Java Studio Creator - Ubuntu's killer app?

[Chanchao]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 14:46 +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:

> > Possibly this is even the 'easiest' kind of programming / developing you
> > could get into on Ubuntu?
> 
> Not true, python is *much* easier than Java.

Sure, but I submit that there is more to developing then just the
internal language used.  Indeed Python is cleaner and easier to get into
than Java.  But they're both 3GL procedural languages that support
Object Oriented programming.  

What acts (finally) in Java's favour is the free tools available. Rapid
Development tools.  You can drag and drop a bunch of fields, right-click
to bind them to your database table, right click again to specify some
user entry validation snippets and click 'run' and it'll pop up in
Firefox exactly the way you dragged and dropped the stuff. 

It comes with table-datagrids that you can just drop and handle
paginating data, updates/edits/inserts..  All with writing minimal
code. 

Or is there something like that that allows writing code in Python?  I
tried Eclipse with PyDev.. yikes!

The only other tool that I found that's just as good is Microsoft Visual
Web Developer.. which is Windows-only and results in lock-in to
Microsoft. 

Cheers,
Chanchao