Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Developing for AWT/Swing and Android portability Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:26:11 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <520c09d7$0$304$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <520c120a$0$304$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <520c2d96$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <520d7617$0$296$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <520d7717$0$294$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:25026 On 8/16/2013 8:49 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 8/15/2013 8:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 8/15/2013 1:23 AM, Qu0ll wrote: >>> "Arne Vajhøj" wrote in message >>> news:520c2d96$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk... >>>> If I were to recommend something for cross-platform desktop >>>> app, then I would recommend JavaFX. >>>> >>>> I am not sure though that I would do the same for a >>>> single-platform desktop app. JavaFX may be conceptually >>>> as good as the alternatives, but it it is still far behind >>>> in adoption, which impact the level of support available. >>> >>> Yes, it is absolutely true that Swing is everywhere and adoption of >>> JavaFX is not at that level - yet. >> >> The alternatives I was referring to are non-Java. >> >>> But Oracle have told me that most of >>> the large sites where JavaFX is being used are behind "corporate >>> firewalls" and are not the sort of applications that can be publicised >>> on the net or have demos made available to the general public. There >>> actually are quite of lot of corporations and individuals who are >>> investing heavily in JavaFX right now. >> >> "It is widely used, but the details are not public" is not that >> convincing. >> >> But even if more than half the companies doing desktop apps in >> Java are switching from Swing to JavaFX, then it would still >> not be many. > > A search at dice.com finds: > > * 2769 JSP jobs > * 423 Swing jobs > * 7 JavaFX jobs > * 940 WPF jobs > * 300 WinForms jobs > * 290 Cocoa jobs No Apex, Application Express? Isn't that the other Strategic Direction for Oracle Web Apps? > > Arne > >