Trying to be more specific about what I like about it. I liked the fact that it enabled me to create fairly slick and impressive UI without massive effort. On the other hand beneath the UI was all the full power of the Java platform.
I know I cannot compare this fairly unless I have used Flash and Silverlight in anger. I only as of late have an academic copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5 and so could try out Flash (so far I have never had the time). I played around with Silverlight somewhat back when I was working at a .Net company but haven't really touched it since then and I didn't really use the UI side of it in anger. I did seem to have similar advantages over Flash that it was backed by a more powerful programming language / capability however Silverlight was very much cut down from the full .Net platform and at that time libraries had to be compiled specifically for Silverlight rather than being able to leverage any existing code. Also there were lots of constraints on what could be done in the interests of security such as use of sockets etc. On May 31, 6:45 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ricky Clarkson > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I particularly like the event dispatching, it looks like it wouldn't > > lead to the same mess raw Swing often does. > > Can you be more specific on what you like about it? > > -- > Cédric -- 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.
