A Twitter Client is the new Hello World
Filed under: consumerjre java javafx jdk jdk7 multilanguage on Monday Mar 16, 2009
The growing chorus (amongst a cacophony) of very usable
Twitter clients that use Twitter's
REST API and run on the JVM, show to great effect that the Java
runtime is a lovely place for a RIA app to perch.Like Greet (start) which is build on the Griffon framework. Griffon uses the Groovy language and Swing components, and just hatched its 0.1 release.
Or the Simple Twitter Client, (start), built with the Scala language and Swing components wrapped in the Scala Swing package, as you can see here.
Or any of the JavaFX Twitter clients, Tweetbox (start) or TwitterFX, (start) built with the scene graph and JavaFX Script.
No news to those of you at last year's JavaOne ScriptBowl, but nice illustrations of why, what some may consider dull plumbing: tweaking the bytecode, modularizing the JDK, and rewriting the browser plugin benefits all RIA apps that run there, whatever their language: they run faster, start quicker, and integrate better into web pages (or pull out too).
Posted by dannycoward
| Comments[3]
Thanks for the plug for Greet! Could you do me a favor and change the webstart link to http://dist.codehaus.org/griffon/samples/0.1.0/Greet/greet.jnlp ? This is the most current edition, running off of the linked Griffon 0.1 code.
Posted by Danno Ferrin on March 16, 2009 at 02:19 PM PDT #
sure !
Posted by Daniel Coward on March 16, 2009 at 04:12 PM PDT #
Great post and draw. Thank you for sharing.
Posted by Wow gold on October 29, 2009 at 09:42 PM PDT #