Indeed, lets look forward, I have not looked at JavaScript as always
being into heavy desktop Swing apps. Over the years it has helped me
with a demo app showing all kind of features a given system allows me to
use. Like a toolbox, which I run and say - hey that's the component I
need. Is there something like this for the HTML+JAVA api ? Or some
websites showing the current func?
Jaroslav, thanks for also looking forward and suggesting a way out of
this swamp ... I will start looking into this.
Bernd
On 3/12/2018 10:59 AM, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
"Oracle has begun conversations with interested parties in the Java
ecosystem on the stewardship of JavaFX, Swing and AWT beyond the above
referenced timeframes."
The official announcement is here and people are finally starting to
realize the truth: There is no future for JavaFX, AWT and Swing. Nobody
will sponsor development of anything new for these technologies. Even if
they get transfered to their new owners, they will be in maintenance mode:
Bugfixes and little features. No bigger changes - no new rendering
pipelines using new nifty features of graphics cards. Just sustaining. I've
been explaining this would happen since 2012.
To help us out of this situation and save Java as a programming language I
dedicated my days to smoothing out interoperability between Java and
JavaScript with the goal to reuse the most flexible and portable rendering
system of these days: the browser. My work has already been donated to
Apache, see: https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans-html4j - let's
use it to build new features of NetBeans and other future Java desktop
applications. Get started by reading Javadoc at
http://bits.netbeans.org/html+java/
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!
-jt
