Java on the BSD Desktop?

[Tom Grove]

I am wanting to write a gui frontend to pkg_cutleaves.  I see that it is 
just a simple perl script so, it would be quite simple to just put a gtk 
frontend on it and call it a day.  However, I am starting to write a 
good amount of code in java and was wondering what others think about 
java as the de-facto gui standard on the BSD desktop.

Python started me on a path of cross platform coding and I found that 
java also makes this task quite simple.  Along with it's nice feature 
set and significant speed improvements since 1.5 I am starting to see it 
as a great language for most everything.  Is it just me or does BSD and 
java make sense?  Basically, before I get started writing a program that 
I hope is used by more than me does it make more sense to write this 
program and future programs in java or gtk/python/perl/c/whatever?

-Tom