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Re: Swing Application Framework Dead

From	Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Swing Application Framework Dead
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Date	2012-03-04 18:15 -0400

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On 12-03-04 05:20 PM, Jan Burse wrote:
> Jeff Higgins schrieb:
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, I think that makes a very fine general purpose definition.
>>
>> I'm tempted to include modularity in there somewhere.
> 
> Eclipse calls its own plugin framework
> lightweight. At least the Wiki article
> says so:
> 
>     This plug-in mechanism is a
>     lightweight software componentry
>     framework.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_%28software%29#Architecture

Who knows who wrote that. It's also important to point out that for
software _components_, as for some other software things, definitions of
"lightweight" and "heavyweight" other than the one I proposed are much
more appropriate. However, in this case I think the "lightweight" is
associated with "framework", and very little about the Eclipse framework
is lightweight.

Like I suggested before, the definition of "lightweight" used most often
these days, often by technical types who should know better, is as
marketing-speak and it usually is meant to convey "easy to understand"
or "not complex" or "10 minutes out of the box"...in those cases where
it's not simply a buzzword meaning "best of breed".

AHS
-- 
-- Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
Josef Stalin, November 1935

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Swing Application Framework Dead markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-03 13:52 -0800
  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
            Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 17:44 -0500
            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
      Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-04 22:18 +0100
        Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-03-04 18:21 -0400
      Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 20:55 -0500
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      Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-04 21:49 +0100
    Re: Swing Application Framework Dead Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-04 17:18 -0500
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        Re: AAA Abstract Application Annotations Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-05 15:06 -0500
          Re: AAA Abstract Application Annotations Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-06 19:36 +0100

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