Seeking feedback on a possible JDatePicker Swing component

[Taylor Smock]

On 8/21/24 23:00, Tejesh R wrote:
> Hello Swing Community,
> [...] so we are considering revisiting the idea of a Date Picker in core Swing. [...]
> - Is it of interest ?
Yes. The OSS application I work on (https://josm.openstreetmap.de) has some areas in the UI where it would be nice to have a date picker. Some plugins for the app use third-party components to provide a date picker UI, but the non-plugin date pickers are text only.
> - Would you use it ?
Yes. Eventually -- whenever we make the version of Java with the date picker the minimum required version. That will probably be a decade after GA for the date picker. For reference, we only stopped supporting Java 8 in the past year. We still support Java 11, and we will _likely_ be held back by the default-jre in Debian going forward.
We *do* support the latest Java versions, but for our users, we try to support as many versions of possible (we distribute jlink binaries, jars, and jnlp files (for OpenWebStart)).
> - What features must it have ?
For our usage, we just need users to be able to pick dates; almost all of our use cases don't require time as well.
So:
* User selection of a date
> - What features are nice to have ?
* User selection of a date range -- this can be done outside of the JDK if necessary.
> - Do you have any experiences of other date pickers that reinforce those responses ?
I've used https://github.com/JDatePicker/JDatePicker in the past in a plugin for the OSS application.
> - Anything else ?
No.