Support for Apple Extensions

[Fabrizio Giudici]

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:04:18 +0200, Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com>  
wrote:


> widely recommended alternative. There was also Werner Randelshofer's  
> Quaqua project. I'm not sure that's actively supported by Werner  
> anymore? I thought saw it was open sourced somewhere now? Might be  
> misremembering.

Quaqua is open source, but has not received updates in recent times, even  
though Werner responded to ping.

My current opinion is that Qauqua is an excellent work, but now is for  
legacy (maintaining existing Swing code). Note that JavaFX FileChooser is  
native, even though somewhat limited for now.

IMO for any new development - unless there are showstoppers - JavaFX is  
the way to go and AquaFX (http://aquafx-project.com/) the way to be native  
on Mac OS X, hoping that the project receives the required attention by  
the community. Note that it's targeted at JDK 8, but today you can take  
the CSS, comment out the skin references, and already have some  
improvement with JDK 7. Whether this is good or not for a production  
environment is something that I'm still studying. But it sounds as the  
standard way starting from JDK 8.




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