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On 3/24/2018 12:13 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
> On 2018-03-24 16:27, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 3/23/2018 3:36 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>                                              You think they'll keep it
>>> going if I ask nicely :-)
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> But if one day a separate Eclipse project "Java Desktop" opens up, then
>> it may not hurt to show some interest.
> 
> Do you guys include mobile when you say "desktop"?

No.

>                                                      'Cause there's still
> Android, which is likely to be around for a while.

Yes. Millions of apps.

But it is Google not Oracle. And it is its own GUI framework not
AWT/Swing/JavaFX.

One could of course wonder whether a new Java desktop should
simply just take the Android GUI framework.

:-)

Arne