Well if they give JavaFX a /really/ nice Java API so one can use it
from Java as easily as Swing, then there's nothing more compelling about
SWT due to this announcement.
SWT has no point over Swing at this point (vs. when it was originally
created) unless you or your users are /really /hung up on widgets or
fonts tracking the native platforms /perfectly/. Some of us really and
truly could care less. Just give us a decent UI that runs on any
desktop OS without any extra native libraries, etc (which kills the
notion of SWT immediately) and a reasonable API (which Swing has in my
book). The rest of the Eclipse RCP might be nice -- but it's
"contaminated" by SWT for those who want no part of SWT.
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On 9/20/2010 3:29 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
I think that all this move is going to accomplish is to push even more
developers toward SWT/JFace/Eclipse RCP.
Seriously, Java FX has close to zero adoption, the only times I ever
hear about it are either during Java One or from Sun employees or
JavaFX book authors.
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Cédric
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Fabrizio Giudici
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On 9/20/10 12:31 , Jan Goyvaerts™ wrote:
Is it going to be Swing's successor then ?
I'm reading this quickly (I'm eating). This sounds good for some
things (reusability, which BTW sounds as a "return to the origin",
since I remember that in 2007 Sun was saying in a way that JavaFX
runtime could have been used by the regular JavaVM (which didn't
prove true as there were not "blessed" APIs. So far so good. For
the dropping of the language, it's bad. I'm curious about binding!
If Oracle plans to revamp BeansBinding or such... and eventually
provide some language level support. I was at the Java 7 keynote,
but I didn't follow it with full attention :o) I saw Mark possibly
talking about fully supported properties, so I suppose there will
be something related to binding. Anybody can comment?
PS OTOH, the JavaFX script compiler is the JavaFX part that is
open sourced. I suppose JavaFX script could be fully supported by
aficionados if they want to keep it live.
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