Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

Re:Introducing Palantir's first open source releases by ap22213 on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:19PM (#3353186)

I was surprised to see Swing. Is that still a fairly common foundation for UIs?

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Re:Introducing Palantir's first open source releases by tikhonj on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:46PM (#3353283)

I remember seeing a demo of their UIs when they gave an infosession at school. They look nothing like Swing--as far as I could tell, all the widgets were either custom or redesigned. If I remember correctly, it looked more like MS Office 2007 than anything else.

Since Swing is "lightweight"--all the widgets are drawn in Java instead of using native ones--using it to make a completely custom UI makes sense.

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Re:Introducing Palantir's first open source releases by spullara on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:20PM (#3353191)

It is pretty common for enterprise desktop applications.

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Re:Introducing Palantir's first open source releases by guelo on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @03:51PM (#3353535)

It is one of the few viable cross-platform desktop app frameworks.

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