i have a java swing application which work perfectly well on windows 7 computer and i am sure it should work on a windows 8 computer(right?)
How would i port this application so that it runs on a Windows 8 tablet, like the Microsoft surface tablet, can swing applications run on windows 8 tablets
As far as i know the only way to create a metro style application for Windows 8 is using WinRT and the only supported environment for now is .NET, so at the moment Swing applications can run only in the desktop app of Windows 8, but they are not "app" and they are not seamlessly integrated in the OS, and they can't be deployed through the Microsoft Store .
If as you stated in a comment you don't care to run the application as a real app, but you just want to run the app through the classic desktop, it is enough to buy a tablet with Windows 8 pro and you will able to run the application in the "legacy" mode(older way through Desktop) ...