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Can we develop stand alone application like vb in java?

 
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Hello friends!!
Please someone tell me if we can develop some sort of stand alone applications like the ones developed in VB and VC.
Is java used only for web based applications??
Thanks
 
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Hi,
Why not! Java can be used to develop stand alone applications.
Java became popular language for the web because of several features most important among them being Platform independent.
Happy Coding!
 
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yes, we can create stand alone applications with Java.
if you want the application to be created somthing like the projects of VB, then use VJ++.
you will have forms and stuff like that to layout your data fields.
if you don't want to create a project and would like to convert your application (comprising of many classes), then you can create a JAR file comprising of your class files.
and create a short cut for the executable JAR fle and double click on it and thats it!!
ur application is running!
alos there are third party tools, which can convert a java .class file to a .exe file.
rgds
Shashi
 
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Here are a couple of sites which allow you to convert Java code into Win32 native code:
NativeJ
Excelsior JET
Jove
TowerJ
- John
[ June 13, 2002: Message edited by: John Sinues ]
 
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Forget trying to make .exe or using VJ++ (which limits you to old versions of Java). You can create real applications using Swing and then execute them from a jar file. I wrote a WinZip clone using Java. Many IDE's such as JBuilder and Forte make laying out a form very easy.
 
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