Unter http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2009/08/saf_and_jdk7.html ist von Alexander Potochkin nun zu lesen:
After much discussion it’s become clear that the Swing Application Framework API as it is today hasn’t reached consensus and we feel still needs further design work done.
Since the SAF API was committed to milestone 5 of JDK7 and that time is already here, this date is now impossible, and we need to decommit SAF from any specific JDK 7 milestone