Only one of Sun's two debut JavaFX releases at the recent JavaOne Conference is ready for prime time: JavaFX Mobile. The other, JavaFX Script, trails way behind similar efforts from Adobe and Microsoft.
by Glen Kunene, Senior Editor
May 15, 2007
an Francisco, Calif.—Sun crossed the open source Java finish line when it announced it was releasing the remaining bits of the Java SE (Standard Edition) Development Kit under version 2 of the GNU General Public License here at the 2007 JavaOne Conference last week. Meanwhile, its other big announcement, JavaFX, largely was not even out of the starting blocks. The vision of JavaFX is intriguing: a family of tools on a unified development model that enable creative non-programmers to create rich visual interfaces that leverage Java's graphical libraries without needing to understand the programming details in the plumbing.
The web designer and GUI artist types who would use the JavaFX offerings mark a new audience for the Java platform giant. "Java made hard things easy to do and made it impossible to do easy things," said Father of Java James Gosling at a pre-JavaOne press event. He explained that JavaFX is targeting users beyond Java developers, who previously had been the only ones able to exploit the full power in Java.
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an Francisco, Calif.—Sun crossed the open source Java finish line when it announced it was releasing the remaining bits of the Java SE (Standard Edition) Development Kit under version 2 of the GNU General Public License here at the 2007 JavaOne Conference last week. Meanwhile, its other big announcement, JavaFX, largely was not even out of the starting blocks. The vision of JavaFX is intriguing: a family of tools on a unified development model that enable creative non-programmers to create rich visual interfaces that leverage Java's graphical libraries without needing to understand the programming details in the plumbing.
Glen Kunene is a Senior Editor for DevX.
