My two cents, I think we should start a petition for JavaFX. It probably is a resourcing issue at Oracle with competing groups/managers. The function of user groups/community is to provide feedback to Oracle on things we think they should invest. We shouldn’t frame it as a JavaFX versus JavaScript/HTML because that’s counterproductive. It is a good technology, people are using, and we want it at least part of the platform and not removed if not enhanced.
Note: technically I think we need JavaFX as it brings touch and rich media support to the platform. It does give us that Webview component which enables tighter JavaScript/HTML integration (using a derivative of the engine used by Chrome/Safari). -Ryan > On Mar 15, 2018, at 3:45 PM, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> > wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:25:36 +0100, Matthias Bläsing > <mblaes...@doppel-helix.eu> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> the one thing, that annoys the hell out of me with HTML based GUIs is, >> that everybody reinvents everything, everytime. > > Matthias, > > you don't know how much I agree with your statement. And I know some major > speakers around - also friend of mine - who think the same. This annoys me so > much that sometimes I wonder whether I'd better change job. > > The problem is: the industry is literally intoxicated by this attitude, and I > don't see we can do much to fight it. It is like that for a number of > converging reasons, including the fact that, from a business point of view, > it's like the classic "dig holes and then fill them", or "break windows and > then fix them". > > Personally I've abandoned Swing time ago, but I find JavaFX pretty good. Now, > unfortunately, I'm seeing even the latest "Asterix villages" that kept on > developing rich client applications falling down and being pressured to move > development of UIs to HTML5. In this perspective, I must say that Oracle's > announce to drop JavaFX from the runtime and give it to the community, while > it theoretically could be not a major problem for the survival of the > technology, it's probably going to effectively kill it, because project > managers will interpret the thing like an imminent death - JavaFX finding > itself without a corporate sponsor. > > On my perspective, I can work as technology advocate, architect and > supporting consultant for developers, but I'm not the typical professional > figure that can influence project managers (who reason with different > references than me) to the point of making their minds - and I believe many > of us, unfortunately, are in the same bandwagon. So, I don't see a critical > mass to change things. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect @ Tidalwave s.a.s. > "We make Java work. Everywhere." > http://tidalwave.it/fabrizio/blog - fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > >
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