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giorgio42
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 Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 4:58 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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Hi,
I just installed NB 7.1 Beta, and tried to open one of our many Swing Application Framework-based applications, just to be greeted with a message, that this is not supported any longer in NetBeans 7.1 and I am supposed to stay on NetBeans 7.0.
Which leaves me without the long awaited (at least 10 years or so...) import crunching and support for editing rectangular blocks.
Discontinuing support for existing frameworks has always been one of the hobbys the NetBeans team has always pursued with relentless passion over the years, much to the chagrin of their users. Sometimes it impacted them negatively in a really big way like abandoning support for UML and visual editing of web interfaces, or when trying to push Glassfish by stopping support for Tomcat, a decision, which some sane mind at Sun finally turned around again etc.).
Now the team is using yet another opportunity to annoy their user community.
Cheers,
Georg |
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Delf Egge
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| Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:43 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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Hello Georg,
Right you are! There are more (negative) examples. Maybe one ought to
consider Eclipse or other tools.
Best regards,
Delf
Am 09.10.2011 18:59, schrieb giorgio42:
| Quote: | Hi,
I just installed NB 7.1 Beta, and tried to open one of our many Swing Application Framework-based applications, just to be greeted with a message, that this is not supported any longer in NetBeans 7.1 and I am supposed to stay on NetBeans 7.0.
Which leaves me without the long awaited (at least 10 years or so...) import crunching and support for editing rectangular blocks.
Discontinuing support for existing frameworks has always been one of the hobbys the NetBeans team has always pursued with relentless passion over the years, much to the chagrin of their users. Sometimes it impacted them negatively in a really big way like abandoning support for UML and visual editing of web interfaces, or when trying to push Glassfish by stopping support for Tomcat, a decision, which some sane mind at Sun finally turned around again etc.).
Now the team is using yet another opportunity to annoy their user community.
Cheers,
Georg
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Geertjan Wielenga
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| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:10 am Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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On 10/09/2011 06:59 PM, giorgio42 wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I just installed NB 7.1 Beta, and tried to open one of our many Swing Application Framework-based applications, just to be greeted with a message, that this is not supported any longer in NetBeans 7.1 and I am supposed to stay on NetBeans 7.0.
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A problem with that framework is that it was intended to be part of the
JDK, but it has always been nothing more than a JSR. It is always risky
to use a JSR for production code while it hasn't passed through the
review process to make it into the JDK. Now that it hasn't made it into
the JDK, it makes sense to drop support for it in the IDE.
Never mind, though, because there is a much more robust Swing
application framework out there, with many more features as well as much
more documentation:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
Gj
| Quote: | Which leaves me without the long awaited (at least 10 years or so...) import crunching and support for editing rectangular blocks.
Discontinuing support for existing frameworks has always been one of the hobbys the NetBeans team has always pursued with relentless passion over the years, much to the chagrin of their users. Sometimes it impacted them negatively in a really big way like abandoning support for UML and visual editing of web interfaces, or when trying to push Glassfish by stopping support for Tomcat, a decision, which some sane mind at Sun finally turned around again etc.).
Now the team is using yet another opportunity to annoy their user community.
Cheers,
Georg
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rcasha
Joined: 30 Nov 2011
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:00 am Post subject: Re: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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| Geertjan Wielenga wrote: | On 10/09/2011 06:59 PM, giorgio42 wrote:
A problem with that framework is that it was intended to be part of the
JDK, but it has always been nothing more than a JSR. It is always risky
to use a JSR for production code while it hasn't passed through the
review process to make it into the JDK. Now that it hasn't made it into
the JDK, it makes sense to drop support for it in the IDE.
Never mind, though, because there is a much more robust Swing
application framework out there, with many more features as well as much
more documentation:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
Gj
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The Netbeans platform is an utterly inadequate replacement for SAF. One could use just a subset of the SAF such as the @Actions, whereas to use the RCP one has to use all of it and learn all of it, not to mention convert existing applications over to it - a very major undertaking.
This is not the first time that the NB team has ignored the needs of its users. I sincerely hope that this decision is reversed. If need be, NB should adopt the SAF project to keep it going - after all many users only used SAF because it was promoted by NB. |
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lvskiprof
Joined: 19 Jul 2011
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Location: Las Vegas, NV
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:09 pm Post subject: Re: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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Considering that anyone taking a Java class will be working in Swing (most likely), as I was last quarter at ITT, this means that Netbeans will not be a recommended platform for doing development. That translates directly into lost users of the platform.
This is a very bad decision.
Mike
| Geertjan Wielenga wrote: | On 10/09/2011 06:59 PM, giorgio42 wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I just installed NB 7.1 Beta, and tried to open one of our many Swing Application Framework-based applications, just to be greeted with a message, that this is not supported any longer in NetBeans 7.1 and I am supposed to stay on NetBeans 7.0.
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A problem with that framework is that it was intended to be part of the
JDK, but it has always been nothing more than a JSR. It is always risky
to use a JSR for production code while it hasn't passed through the
review process to make it into the JDK. Now that it hasn't made it into
the JDK, it makes sense to drop support for it in the IDE.
Never mind, though, because there is a much more robust Swing
application framework out there, with many more features as well as much
more documentation:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
Gj
| Quote: | Which leaves me without the long awaited (at least 10 years or so...) import crunching and support for editing rectangular blocks.
Discontinuing support for existing frameworks has always been one of the hobbys the NetBeans team has always pursued with relentless passion over the years, much to the chagrin of their users. Sometimes it impacted them negatively in a really big way like abandoning support for UML and visual editing of web interfaces, or when trying to push Glassfish by stopping support for Tomcat, a decision, which some sane mind at Sun finally turned around again etc.).
Now the team is using yet another opportunity to annoy their user community.
Cheers,
Georg
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Fabrizio Giudici
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 5:30 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:09:54 +0100, lvskiprof <address-removed> wrote:
| Quote: | Considering that anyone taking a Java class will be working in Swing
(most likely), as I was last quarter at ITT, this means that Netbeans
will not be a recommended platform for doing development. That
translates directly into lost users of the platform.
This is a very bad decision.
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As Geertjan said, SAF is not Swing. It's something built over Swing and it
has experienced a bad fate. I understand the annoyance of seeing stuff
deprecated. It's a matter of resources of course. Everybody would be happy
if Oracle supported everything.
NetBeans is open, so you can take over the SAF support and maintain it.
The Visage community (which took over JavaFXScript 1.0) did this and is
providing, AFAIK, a NetBeans Plugin based on the original JavaFX plugin.
If you can't find resources for that, perhaps it could mean that not so
many people are using SAF.
Personally, I'm continuously recommending people about moving from SAF to
the NetBeans Platform. Even for a small app, I've recently blogged at
DZone about that, as the overhead is of a few megabytes. My latest
consultancy about the Platform has been to help some people to port an
application from SAF to the Platform, and it has been done incrementally,
in a few weeks (including further developments of the app itself), and
without major problems.
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Mike
Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
| Quote: | On 10/09/2011 06:59 PM, giorgio42 wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I just installed NB 7.1 Beta, and tried to open one of our many Swing
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Application Framework-based applications, just to be greeted with a
message, that this is not supported any longer in NetBeans 7.1 and I am
supposed to stay on NetBeans 7.0.
A problem with that framework is that it was intended to be part of the
JDK, but it has always been nothing more than a JSR. It is always risky
to use a JSR for production code while it hasn't passed through the
review process to make it into the JDK. Now that it hasn't made it into
the JDK, it makes sense to drop support for it in the IDE.
Never mind, though, because there is a much more robust Swing
application framework out there, with many more features as well as much
more documentation:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
Gj
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Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager
Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere."
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tkellerer
Joined: 15 Aug 2008
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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| lvskiprof wrote: | Considering that anyone taking a Java class will be working in Swing (most likely), as I was last quarter at ITT, this means that Netbeans will not be a recommended platform for doing development. That translates directly into lost users of the platform.
This is a very bad decision. |
NetBeans did NOT drop the support for Swing.
It dropped the support for one specific framework that builds on top of Swing.
The Swing Application Framework was never a really viable framework to begin with. |
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Javier Ortiz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:33 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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Again, NetBeans was not promoting it just supporting it as a prototype. Is not NetBeans dropping support, it won't be on the JDK. Is obvious you have not much experience with the platform, you don't have to use all of it and/or learn all of it. Is not different than when SAF was introduced, you had to learn it right?
Depending on how complex is your application that much you'll need to learn. After you know the basics is pretty straight forward.
Look here[1] for options for SAF
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Application_Framework
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From: rcasha [mailto:address-removed]
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:02 AM
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Subject: [nbusers] NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued
Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
| Quote: | On 10/09/2011 06:59 PM, giorgio42 wrote:
A problem with that framework is that it was intended to be part of the
JDK, but it has always been nothing more than a JSR. It is always risky
to use a JSR for production code while it hasn't passed through the
review process to make it into the JDK. Now that it hasn't made it into
the JDK, it makes sense to drop support for it in the IDE.
Never mind, though, because there is a much more robust Swing
application framework out there, with many more features as well as much
more documentation:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
Gj
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The Netbeans platform is an utterly inadequate replacement for SAF. One could use just a subset of the SAF such as the @Actions, whereas to use the RCP one has to use all of it and learn all of it, not to mention convert existing applications over to it - a very major undertaking.
This is not the first time that the NB team has ignored the needs of its users. I sincerely hope that this decision is reversed. If need be, NB should adopt the SAF project to keep it going - after all many users only used SAF because it was promoted by NB.
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Geertjan Wielenga
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:06 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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On 11/30/2011 06:09 PM, lvskiprof wrote:
| Quote: | Considering that anyone taking a Java class will be working in Swing (most likely), as I was last quarter at ITT, this means that Netbeans will not be a recommended platform for doing development. That translates directly into lost users of the platform.
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Just to re-re-reiterate: NetBeans has NOT dropped support for Swing. It
is by far the best IDE to use for Swing development -- it has GUI
builders for all layout managers and a new one was recently introduced
for no other reason that to take away the pain of GridBagLayout.
And, of course, underneath NetBeans is the world's only modular Swing
application framework, which can be reused as hundreds, probably
thousands, have been doing for years and will continue to do:
http://platform.netbeans.org/screenshots.html
Gj
| Quote: | This is a very bad decision.
Mike
Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
| Quote: | On 10/09/2011 06:59 PM, giorgio42 wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I just installed NB 7.1 Beta, and tried to open one of our many Swing Application Framework-based applications, just to be greeted with a message, that this is not supported any longer in NetBeans 7.1 and I am supposed to stay on NetBeans 7.0.
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A problem with that framework is that it was intended to be part of the
JDK, but it has always been nothing more than a JSR. It is always risky
to use a JSR for production code while it hasn't passed through the
review process to make it into the JDK. Now that it hasn't made it into
the JDK, it makes sense to drop support for it in the IDE.
Never mind, though, because there is a much more robust Swing
application framework out there, with many more features as well as much
more documentation:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
Gj
| Quote: | Which leaves me without the long awaited (at least 10 years or so...) import crunching and support for editing rectangular blocks.
Discontinuing support for existing frameworks has always been one of the hobbys the NetBeans team has always pursued with relentless passion over the years, much to the chagrin of their users. Sometimes it impacted them negatively in a really big way like abandoning support for UML and visual editing of web interfaces, or when trying to push Glassfish by stopping support for Tomcat, a decision, which some sane mind at Sun finally turned around again etc.).
Now the team is using yet another opportunity to annoy their user community.
Cheers,
Georg
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Fabrizio Giudici
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:12 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:01:40 +0100, rcasha <address-removed> wrote:
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Geertjan Wielenga wrote:
| Quote: | On 10/09/2011 06:59 PM, giorgio42 wrote:
A problem with that framework is that it was intended to be part of the
JDK, but it has always been nothing more than a JSR. It is always risky
to use a JSR for production code while it hasn't passed through the
review process to make it into the JDK. Now that it hasn't made it into
the JDK, it makes sense to drop support for it in the IDE.
Never mind, though, because there is a much more robust Swing
application framework out there, with many more features as well as much
more documentation:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
Gj
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The Netbeans platform is an utterly inadequate replacement for SAF. One
could use just a subset of the SAF such as the @Actions, whereas to use
the RCP one has to use all of it and learn all of it, not to mention
convert existing applications over to it - a very major undertaking.
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I seem to have said that the Platform can be used incrementally. I've also
pointed out a blog post with a demo application (for the lazy, the URL is
http://netbeans.dzone.com/nb-for-simple-apps). Before spreading FUD or
criticizing, at least one could check out things as they are and talk on
facts.
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Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager
Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere."
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Geertjan Wielenga
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:18 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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The Netbeans platform is an utterly inadequate replacement for SAF. One could use just a subset of the SAF such as the @Actions, whereas to use the RCP one has to use all of it and learn all of it,
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Um, no, you don't.
| Quote: | not to mention convert existing applications over to it - a very major undertaking.
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There's no difference in converting to SAF versus converting to NetBeans
Platform, i.e., yes, a lot of converting and refactoring. The difference
is that at the end of the process, you get very little from SAF and a
lot from the NetBeans Platform.
| Quote: | This is not the first time that the NB team has ignored the needs of its users. I sincerely hope that this decision is reversed. If need be, NB should adopt the SAF project to keep it going - after all many users only used SAF because it was promoted by NB.
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Yes. Still, it makes sense to find out some facts about a framework
before using it. One important fact about SAF was that it was in the
process of trying to be accepted for inclusion in the JDK. It failed in
that regard and the momentum around it has dropped significantly.
I'd be very happy to help you convert your app to the NetBeans Platform,
you'd be surprised how little work is involved in that process and how
much your app will gain from it.
Gj |
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Miller, David D
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:24 pm Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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What is a good resource for helping me to port my application to Netbeans platform? I have thought about doing so but do not know where to start. Examples? Books? URLs?
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From: Geertjan Wielenga [address-removed]
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:13 PM
To: address-removed
Subject: [nbusers] Re: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued
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The Netbeans platform is an utterly inadequate replacement for SAF. One could use just a subset of the SAF such as the @Actions, whereas to use the RCP one has to use all of it and learn all of it,
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Um, no, you don't.
| Quote: | not to mention convert existing applications over to it - a very major undertaking.
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There's no difference in converting to SAF versus converting to NetBeans
Platform, i.e., yes, a lot of converting and refactoring. The difference
is that at the end of the process, you get very little from SAF and a
lot from the NetBeans Platform.
| Quote: | This is not the first time that the NB team has ignored the needs of its users. I sincerely hope that this decision is reversed. If need be, NB should adopt the SAF project to keep it going - after all many users only used SAF because it was promoted by NB.
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Yes. Still, it makes sense to find out some facts about a framework
before using it. One important fact about SAF was that it was in the
process of trying to be accepted for inclusion in the JDK. It failed in
that regard and the momentum around it has dropped significantly.
I'd be very happy to help you convert your app to the NetBeans Platform,
you'd be surprised how little work is involved in that process and how
much your app will gain from it.
Gj= |
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Geertjan Wielenga
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:50 am Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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On 12/01/2011 12:17 AM, Miller, David D wrote:
| Quote: | What is a good resource for helping me to port my application to Netbeans platform? I have thought about doing so but do not know where to start. Examples? Books? URLs?
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Here is the Learning Trail:
http://netbeans.org/kb/trails/platform.html
On that page you'll find the NetBeans Platform Porting Tutorial:
http://platform.netbeans.org/tutorials/nbm-porting-basic.html
You can also take a NetBeans Platform course, which can include a
porting workshop, write directly to me for further info on this:
http://edu.netbeans.org/courses/nbplatform-certified-training/
Gj
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From: Geertjan Wielenga [address-removed]
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:13 PM
To: address-removed
Subject: [nbusers] Re: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued
| Quote: | The Netbeans platform is an utterly inadequate replacement for SAF. One could use just a subset of the SAF such as the @Actions, whereas to use the RCP one has to use all of it and learn all of it,
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Um, no, you don't.
| Quote: | not to mention convert existing applications over to it - a very major undertaking.
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There's no difference in converting to SAF versus converting to NetBeans
Platform, i.e., yes, a lot of converting and refactoring. The difference
is that at the end of the process, you get very little from SAF and a
lot from the NetBeans Platform.
| Quote: | This is not the first time that the NB team has ignored the needs of its users. I sincerely hope that this decision is reversed. If need be, NB should adopt the SAF project to keep it going - after all many users only used SAF because it was promoted by NB.
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Yes. Still, it makes sense to find out some facts about a framework
before using it. One important fact about SAF was that it was in the
process of trying to be accepted for inclusion in the JDK. It failed in
that regard and the momentum around it has dropped significantly.
I'd be very happy to help you convert your app to the NetBeans Platform,
you'd be surprised how little work is involved in that process and how
much your app will gain from it.
Gj |
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Fabrizio Giudici
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 9:01 am Post subject: NetBeans 7.1 Swing Application Support discontinued |
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On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:29:02 +0100, Ramon Casha <address-removed> wrote:
| Quote: | Actually I think that project proves my point. That's a LOT of extra
baggage to support the NB Platform.
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Again, I'd like to see an enumeration of this extra stuff.
| Quote: | In any case, how easy or difficult
would it be to convert hundreds of existing forms to use this
infrastructure?
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Of course it depends on the context. What did you use, specific of SAF,
for the forms?
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Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere."
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