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Java Forum / GUI / February 2006Swing usage in Fortune 500 companies
Hello: Does anybody have an opinion on how widely Swing apps are accepted in Fortune 500 companies? My client -- a small IT secruity outfit, is considering revamping their flagship product, a Swing application with a SQL Server backend. They're questioning whether it makes sense to continue developing the existing Swing app -- possibly provisioning it via WebStart, or, to bite the bullet and develop a full-fledged J2EE app. They have the idea that thick clients are a hard-sell -- or even automatically rejected, at certain companies. Has anybody else come across a thick-client ban? Any opinions would ne much appreciated ... Griff Jones On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:53:01 -0800, "Griffith Jones" <griffith_jo@comcast.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Has anybody else come across a thick-client ban? the alternative is so bloody stupid I can't believe so many people are doing it -- AJAX. This sits atop a flaky, insecure JavaScript. Sooner or later there will be a string of really nasty security attacks using it and corporate America will have no choice but to ban it from their desktops. Then where will everyone be who built apps so solidly around JavaScript? I really bugs me the way Google is pushing JavaScript down our throats. I figure out how to get rid of it from site-flavoured searches, but not from AdSense. So many sites simply won't work unless you enable JavaScript and popups. Many insist on that wretched pile bug dung, IE, that Gates says he won't fix ever unless you submit to XP.  SignatureCanadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Java custom programming, consulting and coaching. > Hello: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > I haven't actually come across a thick client ban but certainly there is a perception among many companies that 'web is best' which has led the company I work for to redevelop many of its functions in browser based applications. > I haven't actually come across a thick client ban but certainly there is > a perception among many companies that 'web is best' which has led the > company I work for to redevelop many of its functions in browser based > applications. "Web is best" seems to be based upon the notion that the web is easier to use than desktop applications. Stands to reason, dunnit. I guess that's down to the web applications tending to not cover so much ground and the web interface tying down bad programmers. Of course AJAX changes all that. Now we can have over-complicated web apps which are difficult to use, slow, difficult to program, expensive, buggy, less reliable and don't actually achieve much that alternative methods would. Still, that was never a problem for EJB. Tom Hawtin SignatureUnemployed English Java programmer http://jroller.com/page/tackline/ > Hello: > > Does anybody have an opinion on how widely Swing apps are accepted in > Fortune 500 companies? My client -- a small IT secruity outfit, is > considering revamping their flagship product, a Swing application with a SQL > Server backend. You are worried about Swing when you gloss over the fact you are using SQL Server still? > They're questioning whether it makes sense to continue developing the > existing Swing app -- possibly provisioning it via WebStart, or, to bite the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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