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RxJava and SWT: Out with Events, in with FRP
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Summary
Ned Twigg discusses using RxJava to wrap SWT events, looking at a few simple SWT UI's, and coding them using raw SWT and then again using RxJava.
Bio
Ned Twigg is CEO/Lead Software Architect at DiffPlug. He graduated from MIT with two bachelor's degrees: one in physics and one in aerospace engineering - none in software.
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Apr 28, 2016
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Community comments
Good examples of RXJava application
by Fred Janon,
From Insane Spaghetti to Reactive UIs
by Lonnie VanZandt,
Good examples of RXJava application
by Fred Janon,
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Thanks for the presentation. I am always keen on good examples of RXxxx
From Insane Spaghetti to Reactive UIs
by Lonnie VanZandt,
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For a Guava/Scala guy here browsing the net for clean ways to handle coupled widgets in SWT, this talk by Ned was very comforting. I can't use RxJava on my project but at least I see that some other community has recognized the mess of spaghetti SWT listeners and has delivered a clean alternative.