Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:30:51 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <04c1fe18-b023-4f45-8fa3-3c2f78cba69e@googlegroups.com> <5d237ee6-b5cf-4dc0-81a4-32177471183b@googlegroups.com> <53b978b3$0$291$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uYFkdLFMFILrcerhBCvdBA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29080 On 7/12/2014 8:43 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > But AWT and SWing are also dead. JavaFX is the new thing. > The "New thing"? Really??? JavaFX was still-born at least 5 years ago. HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript is the GUI. Applets OTOH provided real infrastructure on the client, without touching the GUI, that still enhanced the user experience with functionality that is not available (easily) elsewhere. (Eg: single sign-on, connection-oriented server communication) Java IS the new COBOL! Serving up RESTful JSON is the best you can hope for from now on.