Re: Does anyone still make NetBeans Platform Applications in 2024/2025?

Yes, I've been writing a NetBeans based app for petroleum engineering 
tools.

https://pkirkham.github.io/pyrus/

I find the modern implementation of NetBeans is quite robust. Having 
everything on the desktop is important as in oil and gas we can be 
dealing with some massive files, and uploading these into the cloud just 
to perform some computation isn't efficient. Far better to have a 
powerful desktop than to try to write some middle-man browser app that 
will only end up as a shadow of the desktop app.

However, I do wonder if I'm out there on my own in the wilderness. Like 
you say the trend is for everyone else to be jumping into the cloud.

Best regards,

Peter

On 30/05/2025 8:12 pm, Martin Wildam wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM Tim Mullé <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Anyway, I’m just wondering:
>> 1. Do you create NB Platform applications for your projects, company, etc?
> Since my switch to Java (which is since 2010 or something around that)
> I did a few smaller Swing Applications and I never did something
> bigger so that I seriously considered NetBeans platform. Since then
> mostly backend and one web project with Vaadin and one with GWT (in
> both cases you have web, but program in Java). I loved Vaadin
> especially for the fact, that you code it similar as Swing. In the
> last years I worked with teams in projects where web clients are
> implemented with AngularJS, Angular and React, but I totally miss the
> Swing feeling.
>
> For some kind of applications a desktop application is still a
> no-brainer, but more and more is browser based, even for applications
> where I would totally prefer a desktop application. But even photo
> editing software on the smartphone can be pretty good these days.
>
> There might be a little of a comeback to desktop applications with the
> trend to decouple from the big players nowadays and to be more
> resilient in case of internet outages, but on the other hand a web
> application gives you more platform compatibility. I loved the Sing
> being compatible with Linux, MacOS and Windows, but nowadays you want
> everything also to work on the smartphone for real platform
> independence.
>
> If you consider a platform/framework change then one of the first
> major questions is: Are there ongoing development plans where the
> current implementation will hold you back significantly?
>
> Usually in such situations, if only maintenance is done any more, such
> a big change is usually not worth the effort.
>
> Not sure if that really helps you,
>
> best regards, Martin.
>

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