To be clear: they're not dropping Swing or JSR 296 (the app framework)... just SwingX.
Rob On Nov 8, 3:21 am, "Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The original "news" is about SwingX, not Swing. > > How could one think Sun would do this given the work that went in 6u10 > (including Nimbus), the Swing/JavaFX integration and the > NetBeans/VisualVM, etc... investment? Swing is just everywhere in > corporate custom applications and I just don't see Sun dropping such > core customers altogether. Having said this, JavaFX is indeed THE > current focus of the software client group and Sun's resources aren't > infinite AFAIK. > > -Alexis > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:34 PM, robeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey guys - > > > I'm sure through Dick's wandering through the world of Java posts > > you've probably seen Kirill Grouchnikov's blog post about the demise > > of the SwingX project's funding (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ > > kirillcool/archive/2008/11/sun_setting_dow.html). There's a lot of > > interesting discussion going on in the SwingX forums about the > > decision: > > http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=52945&tstart=0 > > http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=52665&tstart=0 > > > Basically it boils down to Sun throwing everything (from a desktop > > Java perspective) into JavaFX. > > > Here's another interesting blog post about a developer moving to > > flash:http://blog.sharendipity.com/were-moving-to-flash-heres-why > > > Personally, I tend to agree that this is a really bad decision. > > Desktop Java is in trouble and killing SwingX doesn't help. Hopefully > > JavaFX will be the greatest thing since sliced bread as Sun claims it > > is. > > > Thanks for the show. I love the discussion! > > > Rob Eden --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
