LoginDialog ?

[tolask]

Dear All,

I just wondered if you ever developed or plan to develop a standard login dialog ?

Best regards

Thomas

[JIDE Support]

Probably not. Especially there is already a login dialog as part of swingx.

Thanks,

[ebarendt]

I was just looking through your components for a standard/common login dialog. We deliberately removed swingx from our code after we bought JIDE licenses because, for what we need, they provided a lot of the same things.

Any chance you'll reconsider the login dialog?

[JIDE Support]

LoginDialog in SwingX is created by Romain (my guess) which looks pretty good. Any reason you don't want to use it?

Thanks,

[ebarendt]

SwingX and JIDE implement a lot of the same functionality. I don't want to include an extra (1.5 MB) jar file in our client download (we distribute our app over JNLP) when JIDE already provides most of what we need.

[JIDE Support]

In general, we promote component reuse. It doesn't mean only using JIDE components but all available components. SwingX component is part of it. So we will not try to replicate a component if it is already available to Swing developers (and it has to be good enough of course). So maybe you can consider extract their code to just use the this particular component if their license allows you to do so. Unless you pay us to do it, otherwise we will not try to do something that is out there already. Not the best answer you want to hear but hope you can understand.

Thanks,

[lievendoclo]

ebarendt,

At work our applications are also distributed to the clients through JNLP. And only if your applications is accessible through the internet should bandwidth be an issue. If applications are accessible only through the internal network, you really shouldn't care. Putting the swingx jar into your application will then result in a one-time download time increase of about 1 second.
You'll likely waste more time on copy-pasting and maintaining copy-pasted third party code in your codebase.
We're using about 40+ third party jars, such as swingx, jide commons, glazedlists, ... I have to back up Jide support here, reuse is something that should be promoted.
By the way, Spring RCP also has a LoginDialog