And there is Apache pivot, being Apache maybe we could get help in any migration if that was the path chosen
On 12 Mar 2018 16:39, "Peter Steele" <[email protected]> wrote: > To be clear (which i wasn't) i meant eclipse RCP is pretty popular, it > uses swt as it's foundation. Could netbeans use swt as it's foundations too? > > On 12 Mar 2018 16:36, "Peter Steele" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What about the eclipse RCP framework which uses swt? This would seem to >> be a much better solution than having a html front end. >> >> On 12 Mar 2018 16:25, "Neil C Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 at 15:59 Jaroslav Tulach <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Forget about AWT, Swing and JavaFX - the future is HTML. In case you >>> still >>> > care about Java, then your future should be Apache HTML/Java API! >>> > >>> >>> Generally inclined to agree with you - definitely on forgetting JavaFX, >>> and >>> probably on forgetting AWT/Swing (intrigued to see what actually happens >>> there). I don't think HTML is the only game in town, but for a lot of >>> things it's probably the right way forward. >>> >>> But, if we start turning to Apache HTML/Java way, what does it run in? >>> >>> Out of interest, I was looking at an example project using Vaadin running >>> inside Electron recently. Have you tried this approach with HTML/Java? >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Neil >>> -- >>> Neil C Smith >>> Artist & Technologist >>> www.neilcsmith.net >>> >>> Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - www.praxislive.org >>> >>
