Benstock Andrew. Java Magazine: Microservices and Containers

Amazon Digital Services, 2018. — 124 p.It's no secret that the role of desktop computing has changed considerably over the last 10 years. Before the advent of web applications and the widespread popularity of mobile devices, desktops were the prevailing metaphor for user-facing apps. Major languages all had specialized libraries that delivered the ability for rich UI experiences.Java had Swing (later JavaFX) and the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT). C had the GTK toolkit, and C++ had Qt. And of course Microsoft had a variety of platform-speciic UI toolkits. The decline of the PC market during the last decade has been matched by a surge in mobileoriented design. Many UI metaphors today come straight from mobile devices rather than being desktop designs rejiggered for mobile platforms. Microsoft Windows 10 is a canonical example of this trend.