Doomed, Flashed & Eclipsed
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As much as I hate to admin it, the author may have a valid point… or two. I was in the room when Jobs and Alias|Wavefront made the original announcement (WWDC 2000) and I clearly recall pondering over the exact same issues back then.
Sounds like IBM's SWT might give Swing a good run for the money.
I discovered a long time ago that designing a truly native UI in Java, without mixing Swing and AWT components, was close to impossible. A native set of widgets would definitely be more than welcome.
She's no Cinderella, anymore.
On November 8, 2000 The Secure Digital Music Initiative announced that two of its proposed technologies did not survive being attacked as part of the "Hack SDMI" challenge.