Re: Swing Application Framework Dead

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:59:56 -0500
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On 3/4/2012 11:27 AM, Jan Burse wrote:

markspace schrieb:

We occasionally get JSR 296 (SAF) questions here on cljp. For you older
hands, I thought I'd point out that NetBeans 7.1 has finally removed
support for SAF. Their wizard for "Java Desktop" is gone, and it was
done on purpose. Only the regular "Java" platform remains in the New
Project wizard.

So if anyone shows up with an older version of NetBeans and has a
question, we can tell them that all support has been pulled and everyone
finally agrees JSR 296 has bit it.

JSR 296 has ceased to be, expired and gone to meet its maker, it's a
stiff, bereft of life, rests in peace, if you hadn't nailed it to the
perch it'd be pushing up the daisies, its metabolic processes are now
'istory, it's off the twig, kicked the bucket, shuffled off 'is mortal
coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

This is an ex-parrot.


Maybe supperseeded by android.app.*.


As Android is not part of JCP Java: no.

Can SAF be considered something inbetween
Swing and Eclipse? What other similar
frameworks like SAF are available now?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Application_Framework#Forks_and_Alternatives

I think RCP is by far the most widely used.

Arne

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