It has been designated as a pipe-dream by many, though SWT comes close. Frankly I think an app should look like the native platform, and the only high quality way to achieve that is to target (at compile time) the different environments. Hopefully your app is sufficiently well designed so that you can just swap out the UI layer - that is, after all, not dissimilar to the prevailing server side MVC/MVP model.
On Sep 2, 1:09 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > I must admit that I haven't actually used SWT and only heard about it > from others. > > I might ask the question: Has any cross operating system desktop > Windowing system taken off? I am not sure that it is just Java. Has > Flex made a significant impact? I suppose Flash is undoubtedly > successful but not really a desktop app system (Where Flex comes in). > Java can be criticised for not having successfully solved this problem > but I am not sure anyone else has either. I wonder if the demand for > cross platform desktop apps might not be high enough. This kind of > crow thinks cross platform. It seems the industry norm to focus on one > O/S and have a version for Mac if you company has the resources. -- 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.
