OpenSource Jabaco?

Hi all!

Have you ever seen the nice Jabaco project (http://www.jabaco.org/) ?
It have nide advantages and horrible disadvantages.

The advantages are
- You creates programs in a VisualBasic 6 like language and it compiles to the JavaVM.
- It have a nice GUI. Like NetBeans Matisse. But easier and it runs faster.
- The framework is OpenSouce under the BSD-license: http://www.jabaco.org/index.php?page=doc
- It is very easy to create little programs. For example draw a Slider and a Label. With

Public Sub Slider1_Change()
   Label1.Caption = Slider1.Value
End Sub

the Label have anytime the current Slider-Value as text.
It is so easy to develop with it.
- So long as the beta-phase exists, it is Freeware.


The disadvantages are
- Jabaco is closed source.
- It is itself written in VB6. So the IDE and the compiler are currently platform-dependent.
- The IDE can not be extended with Java-code like Java-Beans, because it isn't written in Java.
- Because the author wants to make money with it in the future, you have to register yourself with your
EMail-address to have a Jabaco without limitations:
http://www.jabaco.org/register.html


Try it out!
Possible some people here finding it interesting and planing to rewrite it as OpenSource in Java. ^^

Greatings
theuserbl

 		 	   		  
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