Where are Swing applications used?

Question

Are Swing applications really used nowadays? I don\'t find a place where they are used. Is it okay to skip the AWT and Swing package (I learned a bit of the basics though)?

Answer 1

Are you skipping it for an exam/interview? Besides really good apps like IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans, there are lots of Swing like frameworks [SWT (Eclipse), GWT etc.] which you can learn faster with Swing knowledge...

Answer 2

Hmmmm... how about NetBeans? You know, the IDE? It uses Swing.

Answer 3

IIRC jEdit is also a Swing app. Quite a popular text editor.

Answer 4

Armitage tool is made in swing , GUI tool of metasploit framework.

Answer 5

Check out Filthy Rich Clients. It explains some of the history of AWT and Swing. Swing, being a lightweight alternative (successor) to most of the AWT classes.

Answer 6

Skip AWT and Swing? To jump where? SWT? Web-based development?

In the broader sense, I have a number of Java applications, although I am not too sure if they use Swing or SWT.

• Lot of database tools like SQuirreL SQL Client are written in Java. I think SQuirrel uses stuff from Netbean, which is, of course, Swing based.
• yEd is written in Java, probably Swing.
• A number of P2P softwares are written in Java, including Frostwire (I see no trace of SWT there, but I can just miss it).

And this list is far from exhaustive!

Lol! I forgot to mention the software suite made by the company I work for! It is quite specialized, used by mobile phone companies to monitor health of their network nodes (superficially looks like a spreadsheet). Totally Swing based.