Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:17:39 -0500 From: jebblue Subject: Re: New in Java 7: JLayer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer References: Organization: Personal User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:17:39 -0500 Lines: 53 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-M85oLukXO6NDH8mETakFlLoUqYfiBIllfdY+eJzWElHQClB/Y6XNig3RcIBw3lifCefou9JdjO4lEJg!rDIPa6l0nuOHY3casa95sdH28apv3kUXu0ZZ2QPPtkLnynBEctn3yL3Qq3xzEcEkfQYmOsBvqm4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2958 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4371 On Thu, 19 May 2011 20:54:40 -0700, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > 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? It was a typo. > 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. Tell me about it I totally agree. > 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. You're preaching to the choir. > 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 totally concur. > 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. Yes I hold the same views. > Or may be I missing something? You're not missing anything. -- // This is my opinion.