The original "news" is about SwingX, not Swing. How could one think Sun would do this given the work that went in 6u10 (including Nimbus), the Swing/JavaFX integration and the NetBeans/VisualVM, etc... investment? Swing is just everywhere in corporate custom applications and I just don't see Sun dropping such core customers altogether. Having said this, JavaFX is indeed THE current focus of the software client group and Sun's resources aren't infinite AFAIK.
-Alexis On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:34 PM, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
