Doesn't matter, until you find someone planning or likely to rewrite GVT to use JavaFX. I imagine Oracle will discover that this is true of many tools that many developers depend on.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Lucan1d Beetle <luca...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Thomas.**** > > ** ** > > Do you see Batik being viable long term without such a rewrite of GVT? > And although they are not dead, Java2D will never be further enhanced and > the same is true of Swing. Oracle has made it quite clear that JavaFX is > the only GUI toolkit for Java that they will continue to work on.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Thomas DeWeese [mailto:thomas.dewe...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 30, 2013 1:28 AM > *To:* batik-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Batik and JavaFX?**** > > ** ** > > Batik is very deeply integrated with Java2D. Moving to a new graphics > library would require rewriting most/all of the GVT package which would be > a very large effort. I'm not aware of anyone that is planning or is likely > to do that.**** > > Rewriting the Swing parts would be easy in comparison, although still > non-trivial.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Lucan1d Beetle <luca...@hotmail.com> > wrote:**** > > Can anyone comment on this? I searched for any previous discussions on > this topic and couldn’t find any. Surely such a consideration has to be > made for the long-term plans for Batik?**** > > **** > > *From:* Lucan1d Beetle [mailto:luca...@hotmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, September 30, 2013 9:27 PM > *To:* batik-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org > *Subject:* Batik and JavaFX?**** > > **** > > Apologies if this has been asked before…**** > > **** > > Now that Swing/Java2D has been “deprecated” (at least in the sense that no > further development or bug fixes will be applied) and that JavaFX has been > officially endorsed by Oracle as the way forward for Java-based UI > development, are there any plans to implement the rendering engine of Batik > in JavaFX?**** > > **** > > For those that are not aware, JavaFX is currently at the version 2.x > release and JavaFX 8 will be released as part of Java 8 in early 2014. It > is hardware-accelerated and actually performs very well. It has several > capabilities not found in either Swing or Java2D and is well worth a look. > **** > > **** > > I am thinking that a “SVG control” could easily be added to JavaFX which > would permit the embedding of the millions of existing SVG files as nodes > in a JavaFX scene graph. Awesome!**** > > **** > > Cheers,**** > > **** > > -jct**** > > ** ** >
