AWT is somewhat dead, will JavaFX survive?

[Kevin Rushforth]

+1 to this

Oracle, Gluon, and others are devoting development resources to 
maintaining and improving JavaFX, and plan to continue doing so. There 
are limited devrel efforts, mostly around presentations at various 
conferences.

-- Kevin

On 9/28/2024 11:37 AM, Johan Vos wrote:
> I got the question "Will JavaFX survive?" very often since I became 
> co-lead of the OpenJFX project, about 7 years ago. OpenJFX is a 
> technology project and contrary to most client frameworks OpenJFX 
> itself has no marketing department with "devrels" etc.
> The resources working on OpenJFX are focusing on the technology. And I 
> am very proud to see that the code you could write for JavaFX 9 is 
> still running today on JavaFX 23. I don't think many client 
> technologies can say the same.
> The diverse contributors to the OpenJFX project are doing a fantastic 
> job in maintaining and advancing the technology in the spirit of 
> OpenJDK and Java in general. Granted, I sometimes wish we (as in 
> OpenJFX) had some marketing efforts of paid devrels to spread the word 
> at many conferences. But as developers, our first priority and main 
> skills are in working on the code.
>
> - Johan
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 5:17 PM Davide Perini 
> <perini.davide at dpsoftware.org> wrote:
>
>     no answers, means a lot...
>
>     On 26/09/2024 17:44, Davide Perini wrote:
>     > 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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