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Other names | SwingX |
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Developer(s) | Sun |
Final release | 1.6.5-1 / 27 Feb 2013 |
Written in | Java |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Widget library |
License | LGPL |
Website | java |
swingLabs is a discontinued [1] open-source project developed by Sun Microsystems proposing extensions to the Java Swing GUI toolkit. Available components included:
The aim of the project was to experiment new or enhanced GUI functionalities that are required by Rich client applications. It acted as a testbed for ideas related to client side technologies.
Some successful project components were eventually incorporated into the core Swing toolkit for future Java versions, although API compatibility was not guaranteed. Examples of these are:
The swingLabs project was divided into several sub-projects. For example:
During the sunsetting of java.net in 2017, [3] [4] the public repository for SwingLabs was deleted, effectively terminating the SwingLabs project. [1] Several repositories containing snapshots of the final development version of SwingLabs (1.6.6-SNAPSHOT) do exist. [5] [6] [7] [8]
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