On Oct 28, 8:53 am, Mark Volkmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't believe Swing is used as infrequently as you seem to imply. I > see it used quite often for applications developed to be run inside a > single company. I have developed many such applications and two of > them were written this year. They are in active production use and > have many planned enhancements. > > I don't think it makes sense to turn every GUI into a web-based one. Some are even both. Another anecdotal Swing story: Our company has a JNLP application built on top of JMF that allows users of any platform to preview media files served up via a servlet -- that is, every platform apart from OSX 10.7. I can't imagine asking a user to install XCode for X11 and then install OpenJDK just to preview media. We'll have to create a Mac application, written in Objective C -- which is just what Jobs wants us to do... -Craig -- 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.
