Re: Java Swing Usage

From	"dagon" <dagon@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: Java Swing Usage
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Date	2011-04-27 15:28 +0000
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Shyamal Mitra <mitra@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
>I teach a course on Java would like to get a feel for how many 
>"real world" GUIs are developed using Java Swing.  

What is the description of the course?  There's a LOT of real-world code, so
even if a small percentage is built on any one framework, there's still a ton
of use.

Swing is probably the most popular desktop UI for Java.  SWT and Swing-less
AWT are probably next, followed by dozens of others.  None of them hold a
candle in terms of popularity to HTML, but Swing and SWT are probably used as
much or more than any given HTML UI framework.  

>Is it worthwhile for a student to invest the time in learning Swing
>when they could be using some other package?

It depends on what they want to learn, and what other package they'd be
learning.  What's the course about, and what level of sophistication do the
students have?

For a beginning Java course, don't mention UI at all.  Write console apps, and
maybe some very plain servlet/jsp code. 

For a "Java UI overview" course, teach a bit of Swing, a bit of "plain HTML"
servlet/jsp, a bit of SWT, a bit of JSF, a bit of Spring webflows, and a
hint at maybe the Google AJAX framework.

For a "GUI Programming in Java" course, I'd concentrate on Swing, with a bit
at the end talking about SWT and Ajax.
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Mark Rafn    dagon@dagon.net    <http://www.dagon.net/>

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