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Are recent Swing/Netbeans comments turning more developers on or off to the technology? Cedric seems to have had enough.
Putting an end to the SWT/Swing nonsense The interview of the director of engineering for NetBeans has generated a pretty lengthy discussion. There is a particular argument used by Sun employees to bash SWT that I am getting a bit tired of:
Swing, the NetBeans Platform and the NetBeans IDE are 100% pure Java - you are not being locked in to someone else's proprietary implementation.
This is nonsense. Swing is based on AWT, which is not native, and as a matter of fact, there is a different AWT for every operating system.
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