Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: New in Java 7: JLayer Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 20:54:40 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: TUXTYYqX1yG7hs3zxUg7ng.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4333 On 5/19/2011 7:45 PM, jebblue wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 11:07:35 -0700, markspace wrote: > >> I just saw this in the Java 7 API and it looks pretty cool. It's a new >> lighter weight way to modify the Look and Feel of Java Swing components: >> >> > > I think Swing and SWT as well as other platform toolkits are on > their way out, being replaced by CSS and JA geniuses. > What is "JA" ? You mean JavaScript? What I do not understand is how would doing the whole GUI in Javascript, running inside the browser, would be any better or different than say using Java applets, which is also a GUIcode running inside the browser. Since the browser is the new 'OS' of the future in the minds of many, then why would using Javascript be any better than using Java, if the goal is to run things insider the browser? Java can run inside the browser already. At least Java is real language than can be compiled and I think a better language to work with, than some scripting language to build the future of computing on. I run many Javascript demos on new HTML5 web sites, and I do not see them any faster or better than using Java applets. some take time to start, some are slow, etc... So, what is new? I see the same same performance problems I saw in the early days of Java applets but now are coming back when using Javascript to build so called rich internet application. Or may be I missing something? --Nasser