Re: JavaFX will replace Swing?

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Subject	Re: JavaFX will replace Swing?
Date	2012-06-06 12:34 -0700
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On 6/6/2012 8:24 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    For teaching how to build a GUI with Java I want to use the system
>    that has the highest probability to be used in the future (say in 5
>    or 10 years from now). So, should I start to teach JavaFX instead of
>    Swing now?
>

My gut feeling is "no," don't start yet.  Sun/Oracle has had enough 
false starts with rebooting Swing that I think any kind of large switch 
over to something besides Swing is premature.

Teach JavaFX also;  sure do that.  But don't drop Swing just yet.

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