Re: Java Swing Usage

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.gui,comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:56:31 -0800

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Shyamal Mitra wrote:

I teach a course on Java would like to get a feel for how many
"real world" GUIs are developed using Java Swing.

How many of you actually use Swing on a regular basis for developing
GUIs for your company either for internal or external use?

Is it worthwhile for a student to invest the time in learning Swing
when they could be using some other package?

Thanks for your thoughts and feedback.

I do rather specialized Java software for Las Vegas casinos. Most of it
requires some sort of a GUI. I do the GUIs almost exclusively with
Swing components. They look better and are more flexible than the AWT
components. I'm really not sure why anybody makes such a big deal about
AWT versus Swing these days. Five years ago when it was new maybe but
today there is no reason not to use Swing components. By the same token
there is no reason not to use AWT. If you are going to write Java
programs today, you need to know the complete API not just Swing or AWT.

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Knute Johnson
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