Good Looking GUI For Twitter Client In Java

Question

how we can develop a twitter client (for desktop) in java like Seesmic , i know to deal with twitter api using twitter4j but, how to develop user interface like Seesmic? what are the java technologies i should use? , i guess that i can't do the same using swing.

any help please.thanks

Answer 1

I personally have not used it, but there is a fair amount of buzz around javafx . (tutorials here)

Answer 2

You would be surprised by the things you can achieve with Swing reading this book: http://filthyrichclients.org :-). Anyway, I think a good choose would be JavaFX as Ransom Briggs suggests, as it is supposed to be a "replacement" for Swing in java desktop applications. Other good options you could evaluate are Apache Pivot and griffon (grails-style framework for desktop applications). Griffon can run on different UI toolkits through plugins (Swing, JavaFX, SWT, Pivot, GTK).