Java projects without swing

I'm quite familiar with Java and I would like to work on a project on my free time but for some reason, I just hate having to work with Java GUIs. I'm wondering what kind of Java technol开发者_C百科ogies are available out there that I can use for starting a non-GUI project.

Thank you.

SWT is a popular GUI library (used in projects such as Eclipse IDE and other standalone projects) which uses native windowing components such as Win32 on Windows and GTK+ on Linux. It achieves this through an abstraction layer with a standard library available for supported platforms. http://www.eclipse.org/swt/

For non-UI stuff (which the OP seems to be requesting now), there's CHARVA, which is a Java framework for presenting a "graphical" user interface, composed of elements such as windows, dialogs, menus, textfields and buttons, on a traditional character-cell ASCII terminal.

CHARVA screenshots:

Java Qt Binding

SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit

SWT is an open source widget toolkit for Java designed to provide efficient, portable access to the user-interface facilities of the operating systems on which it is implemented.

If you deploy on the web, there's JSP. You can use Flex and Blaze DS as well.

Maybe have a look at Griffon for a groovier experience (and if appropriate for your application).

If your project is going to use a GUI you can use JavaFX for the view and use pure Java for the logic

You can also use FendGUI which includes: buttons, sliders, trees, text areas, frames, tabs, etc.

Java Curses: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javacurses/

The Java Curses Library (JCurses) is library for developing text terminal based applications using Java programming language. It is implemented as a Windowing toolkit similar to AWT, but built upon the UNIX "curses" windowing system.

You can try google web toolkit (GWT). And the ExtGWT lib is also an try worth.

There's nothing wrong with CLI (command-line interface) apps, especially if the project is just for your own use. I like to prototype all my Java projects with CLI's first, because they're flexible and easy, and only once I've got things working do I consider adding a GUI.