Yakov Fain explains how outdated the Java Swing API is . I'd go further and add that a vast majority of legacy Swing apps I've seen should we rewritten as Web Applications. Even if an application is for a limited number of users behind a firewall, it will be much easier to develop, maintain and use if it runs as a web application. Let the familiar web browser act as the user interface, and keep application clients code thin.
Java Swing Has to be Deprecated — Every time I start teaching my new Java class I’m looking at the Swing units in the manual asking myself, “Why my students need to know Swing framework?” Well, I need to teach them how to program GUI, event listeners, asynchronous worker threads and event loop that are pretty much the same in every programming […]
