Re: Is JavaFx better than Swing?

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From	Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg@example.net>
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On 22/10/2020 9:09 pm, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Just too many barriers - limiting who can run you application
> reliably. When it comes to Swing, *everybody* can run your
> applications exactly as you indented for them too. No barriers
> for the end-user.

Oh, and then there is also the matter of size (yes, I'm old school and
application size is still something that bugs me). I followed the
JavaFX samples and created a Hello World fat jar using Maven from the
CLI. On my Linux system that resulted in a 8.25MB jar file.

Created the exact same Hello World application using Swing, and
it resulted in a 1286 byte class file.

Wow!   :-)

Examining the jar from the JavaFX version, it seems it will also only
run on Linux, because it included Linux native *.so files for GTK2
and GTK3, and some font handling FreeType library. So I would have to
compile separate jars for each platform, or try and figure out how
to build a true "fat jar" for all platforms. :-( The fact that now
my Java application will only run on Linux completely goes against
what attracted me to Java in the first place.

     Compile once, Run everywhere!

So I'll stick with Swing for as long as I possibly can.

Regards,
  Graeme

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