Posted by ul on Dec 05, 2013; 6:50am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Jogl-and-JavaFX-tp4030720p4030774.html

Thanks, I think I get the picture now.

I looks like I have three major options. First I can use JavaFX and its Java3D-like capabilities without Jogl. Second I can use Swing/AWT/NEWT with Jogl. And third I can use JFace/SWT with Jogl.

JavaFX is the future but once bitten twice shy as they say and that's how I feel about it. I really would want a fallback on OpenGL if the 3D part of JavaFX for some reason is limiting.

The Swing option probably is the best right now but it's not that fun to work with deprecated technology. No new features, no bug fixes, a dwindling user community and all that.

So it may be that the Eclipse option is the best really. Eclipse is well supported with a huge infrastructure and probably the most successful Java application ever on the desktop. SWT may very well be the ultimate portable GUI subsystem I couldn't find in the C++ world.

My question then becomes, how well supported is Jogl on SWT really? I'll ask that in a new thread.

http://forum.jogamp.org/Jogl-and-SWT-td4030775.html