Both projects have useful components, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The NB components tend to skew towards the needs of IDEs (as you might expect.) I suggest you use the ones appropriate for your project. - J
On Nov 9, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Casper Bang wrote: > > Thanks Josh, but FUD and politics aside and to stay at the practical > level: Am I right in asserting that people should probably favor using > components from the NetBeans tree than SwingLabs tree? > > /Casper > > On Nov 10, 1:08 am, Joshua Marinacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Neither SwingX, nor Swing, or JSR 295 nor JSR 296 is being dropped. >> Richard and I have each written posts (links below) that better >> describe the situation. Swing is a big part of the client-side Java >> future. >> >> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rbair/archive/2008/11/javafx_enterpri.html >> >> http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=315074&tstart=0#315074 >> >> - Josh >> >> On Nov 9, 2008, at 6:13 AM, robeden 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
