Yes, but the impression I get from reading Richard Blair's response is that Swing will have maintenance work done, otherwise it will be JavaFX. If all they are doing is maintenance work, then I don't see Swing moving forward. And if it doesn't move forward, it's dead.
JavaFX is of no interest to me. If I were to do something like JavaFX, I'd use Groovy's swing builder because it does pretty much what JavaFX does, but in a language that is really good and in which I can do lots of other things and not be limited to JavaFX. I think that JavaFX is a big, stupid case of NIH. Plus a desire for control that only dooms them. On Nov 9, 8:13 am, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
