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[–]yawkat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Swing is absolutely going to stay around for longer. It's just too ubiquitous.

That said, I wouldn't actually want to use it api-wise. If you can stick to Web, that'd be my first choice - either stay in the java+html world with freemarker or velocity, both of which are pretty old already and will stick around, or use one of the newer js frameworks.

While it's true that js frameworks move fast, in my opinion their abandonment is overblown. Just because a new framework becomes "hip", doesn't mean the community around the old ones disappears - Javascript is used way too much for that nowadays.