The CCTV app I work on is used on Windows, Linux, Solaris and OS X.
It's not in-house only, at all, and does get used by non-technical
people.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Even with "most of" I doubt you're right. Point-by-Point:
>
> 1. Even if NetBeans had 100% of the IDE market, not that much changed.
> As I already wrote in the OP, NetBeans runs just fine on non-apple
> JVMs on macs. A little bit of spit and polish to deal with the new
> X11.app based chrome would be a fine plan, but we're talking a man-
> month or so of effort here, tops. Nothing like the serious effort that
> would be required to port swing to cocoa (at least, if apple doesn't
> contribute their work in this for their now deprecated JVMs to a
> community effort or Oracle) - but as a backup, that option (porting
> swing to cocoa) is there in addition to running netbeans on X11. You
> could also port netbeans to SWT, but that's not going to happen.
>
> 2. Yes, swing is used far more than SWT. But that isn't the point. The
> point is: A glass of water might be more than a thimble, but compared
> to the ocean it's nothing either way. Same here: Nobody writes swing
> apps with the intent to distribute it to apple consumers. Its either
> used in-house (where apple has a tiny marketshare and you can probably
> deal with the X11 chrome and installing a JVM), or only used by geeks
> who are capable enough of installing a JVM and dealing with the odd
> chrome. Don't mention azureus/Vuze, as that's SWT.
>
> 3. Without proof that the image manipulation libraries are
> significantly slower on Macs on OpenJDK vs. on Macs on AppleVM, I
> don't believe you.
>
> On Oct 27, 6:34 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> On 10/27/2010 11:37 AM, Neil Bartlett wrote:> Hi Moandji,
>>
>> > Yes that's true, but I don't think that use case will be affected.
>> > Those classes are not going to be removed.
>>
>> > If you'd like to supply a fragment of test code using AWT image
>> > manipulation, I can verify that it works.
>>
>> My 90% was an hyperbole and I apologize for having used a number instead
>> of a generic expression. In any case:
>>
>> 1. Two polls this year reported at 30-35% the percentage of NetBeans IDE
>> users
>> 2. I don't have numbers, but in my perspective Swing users are much more
>> than SWT. It can be subjective.
>> 3. AWT image manipulation would work on SoyLatte, but without any image
>> acceleration or particular optimization. Furthermore, imaging
>> implementations have very different performance figures in function of
>> some parameter (e.g. the SampleModel) and the operating system. It's
>> likely that people will have to re-tune their code.
>>
>> At last, yes, JVM has not vanished yesterday, but we know it will be
>> vanished at a certain point, and almost surely for people who will
>> upgrade to Lion next summer. For the rest, we're still speculating, but
>> (JKoala apart) there's no news of anybody moving on to fill the gaps.
>>
>> --
>> f.g.
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