Greg, Can you elaborate the advantages of Pivot as GUI tools kit compared with old AWT, SWT library? I think that type of explanation would be useful to promote Pivot as alternative library. In particular, I'm interested in the comparison with just pure Java approach without BXML. So far, with my builder approach, it was quite comfortable to use pure Java in Pivot.
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Greg Brown <gk_br...@verizon.net> wrote: > The fundamental problem is that developers are not excited about "applets". > As I said, I had hoped that we'd see an applet renaissance alongside > increased developer interest in other plugin-based technologies, but the > opposite has actually happened - developers are now much less interested in > plugins than they were several years ago. Since many developers seem to > perceive Pivot exclusively as a tool for building applets, we need to do > something to change that perception. > > Developers do seem to be interested in the following: > - Maintaining or extending existing Swing-based applications > - The Eclipse ecosystem > - Mobile development > > I think we should focus on making it as easy as possible to use Pivot in > these scenarios, though not at the expense of applet deployment - there's no > reason we can't continue to support that. It just won't be the primary > focus. > > -- Cheers, calathus
