I'm guessing you overestimate how cumbersome this would be in a web app, but regardless of that: So? In-House swing apps can remain in- house. Mac market share amongst corporations is tiny, they tend to either be brought in from home by mac afficionados who will surely figure out a way to install a JVM on their mac, or they are under management by the system admins, who can also figure that out. So, That's 3 reasons why in-house swing apps are not in the slightest affected by this news.
As I said, if you're writing an applet or a webstart app: Totally screwed. Anything else: nothing changed. On Oct 28, 4:53 pm, Mark Volkmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's better in that (A) If you don't do any swing stuff (and who > > does?), this news is irrelevant > > 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. > For example, some of my recent Swing applications read Excel files, > present the data in a way that is easier to navigate, allow the data > to be modified, allow new data to be added, and output new Excel > files. It would be cumbersome to do something like that in a web app. > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. -- 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.
