With the apparent death of JSR 295 and 296 I give thanks that we decided to use Eclipse RCP as the basis of our desktop application development.
On Nov 8, 9:34 am, robeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys - > > I'm sure through Dick's wandering through the world of Java posts > you've probably seen Kirill Grouchnikov's blog post about the demise > of the SwingX project's funding (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ > kirillcool/archive/2008/11/sun_setting_dow.html). There's a lot of > interesting discussion going on in the SwingX forums about the > decision: > http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=52945&tstart=0 > http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=52665&tstart=0 > > Basically it boils down to Sun throwing everything (from a desktop > Java perspective) into JavaFX. > > Here's another interesting blog post about a developer moving to > flash:http://blog.sharendipity.com/were-moving-to-flash-heres-why > > Personally, I tend to agree that this is a really bad decision. > Desktop Java is in trouble and killing SwingX doesn't help. Hopefully > JavaFX will be the greatest thing since sliced bread as Sun claims it > is. > > Thanks for the show. I love the discussion! > > Rob Eden --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
