We're currently working on a desktop app using a java backend and an extjs frontend with an embedded browser. It's more of a business app but it seems to work quite well. It looks good out of the box, the components are feature rich and the developers are already familiar with the concepts. The application can run as a desktop app or as a web application. Seems to me an easier approach than writing a Swing app with more bang for the buck (don't get me wrong, I love swing)
Ruben [1] http://ruben42.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/writing-a-thick-client-java-application-with-extjs/ On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Oct 27, 6:21 pm, CKoerner <chessm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But then I think of Eclipse/Netbeans and I wonder. Could you write > > those in say, Javascript w/Canvas (thinking Bespin), dash of platform > > specific C++ for bottlenecks? > > Yes. > > > Or maybe in Adobe Air? > > As dead as java desktop is. > > > What does the future really hold for Java on the desktop? A rebirth, a > > slow death, ??? > > > > Was it ever born, then? It's always been a dream, it never came true, > and now it never will. Shame, but, worse things have happened. > > In the mean time, in user-hours, the vast majority of applications run > on java. I'm considering the web as applications too, and I count it > as "written in java" if the backend involved significant amounts of > java. So, in that sense, "desktop" java is #1, has been for years, and > will be for years to come. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@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.
