Swing Dominates New Rich Client Development
posted Monday, 21 November 2005
| There is a
nice Swing hack around creating translucent
windows using Swing. You can find it here.
This is part of Chris Adamson
and Joshua
Marinacci's book, Swing
Hacks. I recently picked up the book and enjoyed
it. If you missed the news, Swing has become the
dominant toolkit among North American developers (according Evans Data
survey, go here for more).
We are not talking about Swing being the dominant Java
UI toolkit - no - it has become the dominant UI toolkit (period) - beating
even Microsoft Winforms and Swing is continuing to grow at a phenomenal
rate. The combination of Swing and NetBeans
RCP
are severely beating SWT and Eclipse RCP. The results from
the
Evans Data survey reflect the fact that corporations have
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are building Swing apps in seriously large
numbers. Swing usage has
increased by a whopping 27% from the Fall of 2004 it is now up at 47% usage
among North American developers. Ouch! If you are a SWT
developer these numbers are demoralizing. Swing is not
only beating SWT by a wide, wide margin but it
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has now
surpassed even Microsoft WinForms. Couple Swing and
NetBeans Rich Client Platform together and you get a very
strong combination. The NetBeans plugin architecture features
are now
a point of desire
among Eclipse developers. You can see some of the
applications written in Swing at the Swing
Sightings (index is here)
and you can see some examples NetBeans Rich Client Platform
applications here
and here.
You
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can check out the new NetBeans RCP features
and how
it works. The new NetBeans plugin development is easy - as in
one click on a menu item (so much so that Geertjan is complaining
that writing about it is difficult because it is so easy).
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Resource :
Tutorials
for NetBeans Module (Plug-in) and Rich Client Application Development |
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