Comments on: Java desktop links of the week, October 26

By: Developer Dude

Developer Dude — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:14:51 +0000

PureSwing looked interesting until I got to this:

“no support for native look and feels”.

Eh, call me when the big three native L&Fs (Windows, OSX, Linux) are supported. Until then it is just a plaything not intended for real development. Yes, I am a bit of a bigot when it comes to L&Fs; I feel that for many/most apps, especially business apps, the app must be indistinguishable from a native app or clients/users won’t accept it. Use of non-native L&Fs has done almost as much harm to Swing based apps as has bad Swing practices which result in slow and buggy Swing apps written by devs who don’t know how to use Swing correctly.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:10:38 +0000

Thanks Eugene, but I really want to cover recent news, not blog posts from so long ago. However, if news does come up, please feel free to email me at jonathan.giles@sun.com.

Thanks.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:02:39 +0000

Here is the start: Twitter client written in Scala/Swing
http://briccetti.blogspot.com/search/label/Swing

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:57:06 +0000

@Eugene: I would happily cover it if I was emailed news articles on it. As it stands, I go looking for as much news as I can find, but there is certainly stuff I’m going to miss. Please, feel free to email me with Scala.swing related news if you wish.

Thanks

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:54:46 +0000

Suggestion.
Why don’t you start covering scala.swing too?
IMO even the library itself is interesting and based on Swing

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:50:58 +0000

I tested both Sun’s and Exadel’s Eclipse plugin for JavaFX last thursday; neither was capable of compiling the JFXtras projects (common + control). Sun’s didn’t even make it through the build phase, and Exadels did but I ran into two problems. Exadel is trying to replicate that.