On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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)
Doesn't JavaFX use swing behind the scenes anyway? If this is the case then swing will continue to advance as a library usable by native Java (though it may take more boilerplate to duplicate certain aspects of FX behaviour) Of course, there's always AWT/RCP if you don't mind a bit of eclipse lock-in. > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
