>I am currently building a desktop based C#/.NET product for a major software house. I also work quite close to and technically liaise with a Java team within the same company. If you are creating a predominantly desktop based application, Java may not be the correct choice. We are starting to use Java more for server based applications but for the desktop, never.

I need to create VFP BROWSE command / grid object for new desktop application in some other environment.

This should be virtual grid which gets data from PostgreSQL server table containing 300000 rows.
Rows should be fetched fom server only when some page is scrolled to be visible.

I havent found such grid in Java so I switched to C#/.NET
In .NET DataGridView Virtual Mode + NHibernate allows to implement this easily.
You can use MONO (www.go-mono.com) to compile/run C# code.
So application can run without using Microsoft software in Linux,Mac,Windows.

I hope this is better (requires less working hours) than using Java.