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Linux Journal: Developing GNOME Applications with Java

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“The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997
stated the following intention, ‘to use GTK/Scheme bindings for
coding small utilities and applications.’ Since then, the GNOME
development platform has provided tools to develop using several
alternatives to C. C++, Java, Perl and Python all are supported by
the official GNOME distribution. In addition, the Mono Project
provides tools necessary for developing GNOME applications using
the C# programming language. All of these options are becoming
quite popular. The GNOME interfaces for many of the system
configuration tools for the Fedora Project, for example, are
written in Python, and many new applications are being written in
C#. This article describes how to create GNOME applications using
the free Java compiler from the GNU Compiler Collection. Although
this article focuses on Java, the techniques described revolve
around the GLADE User Interface Builder and may be used with any of
the bindings supported by the GNOME Project…”

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