A question to the APL vendors on Windows GUIs ...

AFAIK, most APL vendors interface to the standard Windows GUI objects.
Is there a possibility of using "Java GUI Modules" instead ?
i.e. Java  Classes etc etc.
.... and if so, is it possible without much effort ?




The reason I'm asking ?

Well, a recent example :
.... a friend of mine recently recieved his personal copy of APL and
his very first comment was....." the GUI interface looks wrong ; is it
(APL) installed properly?"

( he meant the APL-Window, not anything he himself had written  .. and
it was of course installed properly )


When you see the software on the market today, their GUIs are more
than pleasing to the eye... ... which is of course a major selling
factor ..  rightly or wrongly !

I myself have written over the last few years a couple of larger sized
APL apps which I intended to sell. In the end, I decided not to
bother, as the GUI just didn't look "nice" enough ! ...... not because
of my own work,but because the GUI simply wasn't "slick"enough ... ..
as is the case in most Java apps , for example !


I also did a lot of exploratory work on internet interfacing ( Browser
DOM models etc. etc. ) as well as reporting loads of bugs ( 100's of
Emails ) in the latest verions of my APL interpreter . I discovered
( from the vendor ) that not many Users have been as far as I have in
those domains ! This surprised me "very" much !!



I am well aware that most APL Vendors (apart from IBM) probably don't
have the resources to expend  on GUIs especially when there are more
important outstanding jobs on the table. OTOH, I seem to remember
Sharp APL doing a Java interface !




PS:
Don't flame me for being critical .. but I would like to see some
constructive discussion on this topic !!
Also, I am not trying to discourage the small Vendors, and consider
they have "all" done more than excellent jobs.