| Desktop App Development: tips, productivity, Swing and frameworks
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| Convenor: Andres, Andriy
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| Participants:
Steffen, Andreas
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| Summary:
Is Desktop Java dead? ... no!
Issues:
- modularity. Why do we need to load CORBA in the first place? -> smaller JRE would be better
- JVM startup time
- platform fidelity -> GUIs don't look native
- integration bugs: clipboard, look and feel, drag & drop
Options:
- JSR 296 Swing Application Framework -> dead
- Eclipse RCP -> good if you know SWT
- NetBeans -> alive and kicking
- SwiXML -> apparently in zombie state
- JMatter -> follows the NakedObjects pattern. Been winding down since 2008
- Griffon -> Grails like alternative. Gaining steam
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| Recommendations:
Recommendations go here
- if you care about portability: NetBeans, Griffon
- if you care about modularity: NetBeans, Eclipse RCP
- if you care about fun: Griffon, NetBeans
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