Neither SwingX, nor Swing, or JSR 295 nor JSR 296 is being dropped. Richard and I have each written posts (links below) that better describe the situation. Swing is a big part of the client-side Java future.
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2008/11/javafx_enterpri.html http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=315074&tstart=0#315074 - Josh On Nov 9, 2008, at 6:13 AM, robeden wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
