OK, if you guys are going to go there (relative popularities of Swing, SWT, and JavaFX), then here's a thought experiment. Start with the fact that there are already 80,000 Android apps in the market.
1. Are there more Android apps in the wild than apps built with Swing, SWT, JavaFX, or Java ME? 2. Are there more Android apps in the wild than apps built with Swing, SWT, JavaFX, *and* Java ME, combined? 3. Does the number of Android apps in the wild outnumber apps built with Swing, SWT, JavaFX, *and* Java ME, combined, by more than one order of magnitude? Your mileage may vary. I suspect 1 and 2 are true, and 3 very well may be. Joe said something about this a few episodes back that motivated me to blog a riff on this thought. He basically asserted that Android has "won", and I don't think anyone disputes that it is already bigger, and growing faster, than Java ME or JavaFX Mobile (if that's even its own thing anymore). But he also plays off the idea that the tablet is the "desktop of the future". If we assume that most tablets not called "iPad" are going to be running Android, then Android will be filling some of the roles currently served by Swing, SWT, JavaFX, and their native equivalents. Which leads to the question, does any Java UI framework other than Android matter anymore? -Chris On Sep 20, 5:12 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > In any case, the large increase of adoption of the NetBeans Platform in the > > industry is related to the fact that many don't like SWT (and hence the > > Eclipse Platform). > > At the risk of being snarky, I'll go ahead and say that just like JavaFX, > the only times I ever hear about NetBeans is during JavaOne or from Sun > employees... -- 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.
