I can't be the only person who has noticed that jdk8 had 15 HTML classes/interfaces and jdk9 has 74 HTML classes/interfaces? Does this tell us something? Sure looks to me like HTML is coming to Java in a big way.
Is there anything a browser can render that Java cannot render? If so, what is the point of all the HTML creeping into Java? On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Kenneth Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I can tell Swing and AWT were pretty much abandoned years ago > except for maintenance. > > Ken > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Bläsing [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: March 12, 2018 1:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Apache HTML/Java UI instead of ... Oracle will remove JavaFX > from Oracle JDK > > Am Montag, den 12.03.2018, 17:26 +0000 schrieb Neil C Smith: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 at 17:12 Geertjan Wielenga < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I really wouldn't be worried at all about something that will be > > > supported "through at least 2026". > > > > > > > In a public, freely available JDK? > > > > I did not see Swing or AWT marked as deprecated in OpenJDK. So removal > at this point is out of the question. I doubt that Oracle will remove > the whole desktop module from their JDK, so even Oracle JDK will most > probably carry AWT+Swing. > > My reading is a bit less *heaven will fall*: > > * The java plugin is dead (thanks go to the browser makers) > * Java Web Start is mostly dead and was never open source. Interested > parties could place their money on Red Hat, which might have its > open source successor (Iced Tea Web) > * JavaFX is not part of the Oracle JDK anymore > * The future of Swing and AWT is not yet decided > > To read more into the white-paper is just reading tea-leaves. It might > be fun, but the future is not told there. > > Greetings > > Matthias > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > >
