> > > 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 >
It's a clear call. We would benefit from stepping on the same boat, whichever boat it is. Although I like all the discussion around here, it seems more about the course of this boat rather then offering an alternative one.