Good point. If I had the time and the expertise, I'd love to write a library that lets you deploy apps as native executables on all major platforms, containing a webkit with some very basically moddable chrome around it (logo, title name, some buttons, not much more), which starts a jetty server, and all you have to do is write the app as a servlet. Sounds to me like a FAR nicer environment for programming a GUI than swing, though not quite as nice as JavaFX. Close though. If you are assured you can use all the latest and greatest HTML features because of a guaranteed updated webkit running your webapp, programming in vanilla HTML+CSS+JavaScript is great. For macs it could include a JVM :0
Unfortunately that's not really my forté :( On Oct 28, 3:29 pm, Ruben Reusser <[email protected]> wrote: > We're currently working on a desktop app using a java backend and an extjs > frontend with an embedded browser. It's more of a business app but it seems > to work quite well. It looks good out of the box, the components are feature > rich and the developers are already familiar with the concepts. The > application can run as a desktop app or as a web application. Seems to me an > easier approach than writing a Swing app with more bang for the buck (don't > get me wrong, I love swing) > > Ruben > > [1]http://ruben42.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/writing-a-thick-client-java-a... > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Oct 27, 6:21 pm, CKoerner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But then I think of Eclipse/Netbeans and I wonder. Could you write > > > those in say, Javascript w/Canvas (thinking Bespin), dash of platform > > > specific C++ for bottlenecks? > > > Yes. > > > > Or maybe in Adobe Air? > > > As dead as java desktop is. > > > > What does the future really hold for Java on the desktop? A rebirth, a > > > slow death, ??? > > > Was it ever born, then? It's always been a dream, it never came true, > > and now it never will. Shame, but, worse things have happened. > > > In the mean time, in user-hours, the vast majority of applications run > > on java. I'm considering the web as applications too, and I count it > > as "written in java" if the backend involved significant amounts of > > java. So, in that sense, "desktop" java is #1, has been for years, and > > will be for years to come. -- 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.
