Podcast 249: Java goes to outer space
To infinity and beyond.
Ben Popper
Director of Content
This week we talk through the nitty gritty of our day jobs and review the Java apps that had a big impact on our world, and beyond.
Episode Notes
From Mars rovers to Minecraft to the makeup of our DNA – these are some of the Java apps that may leave a mark on the world of software for decades to come.
Thanks to Hizbul25, our winner of the week, for answering a question and earning a lifeboat badge: query to order by the last three characters of a column.
If you want a written transcript of this episode, you can find it here.
Tags: dna, java, mars rover, minecraft, outer space
2 Comments
Hi.
First all, thanks to talk about java application in 2020 in this podcast.
I’m writing this comment because I think that in this podcast we don’t talk about all applications of the Java Swing framework.
For example, inside the article “The 25 greatest Java apps ever written” there is a Swing application called JMars developer by Arizona State University. This application import a Material Style with an open-source library called material-ui-swing.
I think that this two software need more focus because the work with the Java Swing framework is very big.
If you are interested to see how the software looks like, I will append now the link.
JMars podcast that explains the new UI: https://jmars.mars.asu.edu/podcast1
JMars site: https://jmars.mars.asu.edu/
Material-UI-Swing: https://github.com/vincenzopalazzo/material-ui-swing
Isn’t Swing sort of outdated?
I’ve worked with Swing, and found it a bit torturous. If I were to choose a Java Framework today for building desktop applications, it would be JavaFX.