Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JavaFX disappearing in Java 11 Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 21:06:43 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <64ac0595-1dec-428f-8202-107c25a90773@googlegroups.com> <1c494ba8-27fa-4584-af24-c99fa0cc9821@googlegroups.com> <5aa312c4$0$25508$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> <5aa33dc5$0$12884$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> <5aa3fc29$0$1882$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.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 NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38146 On 3/10/2018 10:39 AM, Silvio wrote: > I agree with a lot of what you say. It is not all black and white. But > the advantage for web based clients I see is not from the perspective of > a developer. Distribution and installation of apps is a major pain. > Release cycles become shorter and shorter and upgrading installed > software is an even bigger pain. I have apps on my phone that are > upgraded more often than I use them. This all goes away with web > applications. Zero install/upgrade and a more consistent client > experience are user advantages. Let's not even start about DLL hell, > registry creep, viruses etc. Deployment is a big advantage of web application and a major reason why they are so popular. A problem that has been attempted solved for fat client applications via "app stores" and sand-boxing models. With success for phones and tablets. Without success for desktop computers. Arne