I think on some level the rise and success of NetBeans is actually behind this. When Tim Boudreau released the Outline view (a kin to SwingX's JXTreeTable), we were some wondering about why Sun would sponsor two projects developing what's essentially the same kind of components, yet still completely different code bases. From that point of view, recent events can make some sense. Having bet on the extremely open SwingX stuff and considering their somewhat wider component repertoire, I just wished Sun would've consolidated rather than knifed. Does the NetBeans source tree contain any date picker for instance?! Not from what I've seen.
/Casper On Nov 9, 3:13 pm, robeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be clear: they're not dropping Swing or JSR 296 (the app > framework)... just SwingX. > > Rob > > On Nov 8, 3:21 am, "Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
