Re:Apple and the future of Java
by stcredzero on Monday October 25, 2010 @02:52PM
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How many general-public end-user apps are built with SWT?
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There don't seem to be many. But I believe it has been used quite extensively in internally-developed applications, never intended for the mass market. The same goes for Swing as well.
So although end consumers might not see them, it will certainly take a long time for SWT or Swing to die. These are the same class of applications that are keeping IE 6 alive, after all.
Does this matter to Apple? I doubt it's significant, as most of these applications are probably running on Windows desktops already. Probably more significant is the legion of Java developers that have been vocal proponents of Macs over recent years. The numbers of such developers might not be so great in an absolute sense, but the amount of noise they create is disproportionate. And, more importantly, they are more motivated to build interesting stuff for the platform they use.
Re:Apple and the future of Java
by mweatherill on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @01:28AM
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Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony aren't consumer apps but they both have a pretty big user base beyond typical Eclipse users.
Azureus is the first consumer app that comes to mind.
Re:Apple and the future of Java
by aphexairlines on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:03AM
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Azureus (Vuze) is one of the most popular bittorrent clients.
Re:Apple and the future of Java
by aphexairlines on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:09AM
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JDownloader bundles the SWT libraries, but I don't know how much of its UI is written in SWT.