Thanks Josh, but FUD and politics aside and to stay at the practical level: Am I right in asserting that people should probably favor using components from the NetBeans tree than SwingLabs tree?
/Casper On Nov 10, 1:08 am, Joshua Marinacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
