Take a look at the FAQ - it includes a section comparing Pivot to Swing. On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:15 PM, calathus wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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
