If Sun does eventually drop or depreciate Swing in favour of JavaFX, then SWT may be the only way to do desktop apps in Java in the future. (And thats entirely supposition on my part)
As far as the native vs other look, it depends on the app and the environment Sure MP3 players, twitter clients and other stuff can get away with being unique (ala flex), but LOB apps need to look native and perform well, so I think SWT is a no brainer. My recollections are hazy, but I think we may have forgotten the time of when swing was 'the future', it was a different environment to now, and I seem to recall there was enough confidence to think the cross platform would win the war. Similar noises are being made now, we'll see if its truer now than it was in 1998. As far as Webstart issues are concerned with SWT I feel any serious app is going to need to use a Windows Installer package and not WebStart. ( I speak from being on a project that was firmly bitten on the butt deploying a 70MB app over webstart over the net.) Anyway, enough rambling. On Nov 2, 1:26 am, "a.efremov" <a.efre...@javasmith.org> wrote: > Hello, > > How you feel about SWT and its future in enterprise java on desktop? > SWT application has native look and feel and integrates seamlessly > with user's environment. I mean compared to as Swing application does. > > will be glad to hear your feedbacks. > > alexander --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
