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Re: Swing is dead! Long live Swing.

From	Novice <novice@example..com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Swing is dead! Long live Swing.
Date	2012-02-16 19:13 +0000
Organization	Your Company
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Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote in news:jhhsv4$uov$1
@dont-email.me:

> I was doing some investigation of JavaFX and found a Q&A on the 
> javafx.com website.
> 
> "6. Is JavaFX replacing Swing as the new client UI library for Java SE?
> Yes. However, Swing will remain part of the Java SE specification for 
> the foreseeable future, and is included in the JRE. On one hand, Swing 
> is widely used in existing Java desktop applications, but relies on an 
> old architecture, which requires a certain level of expertise and 
> specialization. On the other hand, JavaFX features a set of modern UI 
> controls that can be skinned using standard CSS techniques. While we 
> recommend developers to leverage JavaFX APIs as much as possible when 
> building new applications, it is possible to use Swing and JavaFX 
within 
> the same application, allowing developers to extend existing Swing 
> applications."
> 
> I've just started playing with JavaFX and I've got a long way to go to 
> really understand it but it looks fairly simple.  I don't know what it 
> is going to be like to produce the type of GUI interfaces that I 
usually 
> do for work with it though.
> 
> Maybe we need a comp.lang.java.fx group.
> 

My sole experience with JavaFX is the couple of hours I've spent messing 
around with it this morning so I don't speak from any great expertise. 
However, given the fact that JavaFX only works in Windows XP/Vista/7 at 
the moment - a Mac version exists but is apparently not that mature yet 
and a Linux version is anticipated _eventually_ - I submit that JavaFX 
may not be worthy of a great deal of development effort yet, at least for 
those who want to develop things that are going to run on multiple 
platforms, some of which _aren't_ Windows.

It may be "the next big thing" before too long and it may be worth 
investing some time to learn now rather than jumping on the bandwagon 
later but I'm not inclined to put much time into it until it's clear that 
it will be made available for all the platforms on which we expect to run 
our Java code. A statement of commitment indicating that Mac and Linux 
versions WILL be available at the same or similar level to the Windows 
versions by some not-too-distant date is probably all I need to get more 
enthusiastic about JavaFX....  

-- 
Novice

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  Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-02-15 20:13 -0800
    Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 18:33 -0500
  Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-16 19:13 +0000
    Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-16 18:32 -0500
      Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-02-17 16:35 +0000
        Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-17 18:00 -0500
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                Re: Swing is dead!  Long live Swing. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-26 18:05 -0500
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