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Re: Swing Application Framework Dead

Date	2012-03-04 21:03 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Swing Application Framework Dead
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On 3/4/2012 4:20 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 03/04/2012 04:13 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> On 03/04/2012 03:31 PM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>
>>> Dunno about metrics, but this definition does imply that in order to do
>>> anything with a "heavyweight" framework you've got lots of accompanying
>>> stuff. The upside of this is that you can do lots of different things. A
>>> "lightweight" framework implies that you can't do nearly as many
>>> different things, or it's maybe more work to get some things done
>>> compared to a "heavyweight" setup, but you've got less stuff to take
>>> along for the ride and configure to get a given thing accomplished.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, I think that makes a very fine general purpose definition.
>>
>> I'm tempted to include modularity in there somewhere.
>> The Eclipse RCP platform is exceedingly extensible, configurable,
>> flexible and able to handle many of the difficult cases. There is a lot
>> of stuff in there. But one needn't carry along all of the heavy baggage.
>
> But one needn't carry along all of the heavy baggage get a given
> lightweight thing accomplished.

That is what modularity provides.

Arne

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  Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-03 21:17 -0500
    Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-03 21:27 -0500
      Re: Swing Application Framework Dead markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-03 20:00 -0800
        Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 09:31 -0500
          Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-04 14:34 -0500
      Re: Swing Application Framework Dead "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-03 23:52 -0500
  Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-04 17:27 +0100
    Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 12:59 -0500
    Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-04 13:58 -0500
      Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-04 16:31 -0400
        Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-04 16:13 -0500
          Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-04 16:20 -0500
            Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 21:03 -0500
          Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-04 22:20 +0100
            Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-04 18:15 -0400
              Re: Swing Application Framework Dead David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-03-05 16:26 -0500
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            Re: Swing Application Framework Dead markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-05 08:14 -0800
            Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-06 07:06 -0500
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      Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 20:55 -0500
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