AWT is somewhat dead, will JavaFX survive?

Davide Perini perini.davide at dpsoftware.org
Thu Sep 26 15:44:09 UTC 2024


As title.
AWT is too old to withstand the future and probably it's too old to 
withstand the present.

AWT is falling apart with old APIs breaking as operating systems move on.

Even very important features like tray icons and notifications are broken.
Something is broken in Windows, something in Linux, something on macOS.

Current notification APIs is old and is somewhat broken in Windows with 
notification that doesn't stick in the notification center.

SystemTray on Linux is completely broken because it still uses the 
ancient xembeds instead of the newer SNI.

I love JavaFX but will JavaFX survive the fact that AWS is abandoned and 
that it is falling apart?

Is there something moving to renew AWT or it's just kicking a dead horse?

Thanks
Davide


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