Using JavaFX Mobile to Combat Device UI Fragmentation
JavaFX 1.1, a powerful tool for building rich UIs across a multitude of clients, provides mobile emulation for developing JavaFX Mobile applications. Get a beginner's guide to JavaFX Mobile development.
by Jim White
April 3, 2009
ith the recent release of the JavaFX Software Developer Kit 1.1, Sun also released the long awaited JavaFX Mobile platform. Through a Java-like scripting language (JavaFX Script) and a single API, JavaFX provides a development tool that supports a variety of platforms, from desktops to mobile devices.
This article provides a beginner's guide to JavaFX Mobile development, but because all JavaFX development relies on the same SDK and tooling, it could just as easily be about JavaFX in general. Rather than offering a separate JavaFX Mobile SDK, the JavaFX SDK 1.1 and its development tools provide mobile emulation for developing JavaFX Mobile applications. Joshua Marinacci from Sun's Java Swing team put it best in a recent blog posting: "There is no JavaFX Mobile. There is only JavaFX."
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ith the recent release of the JavaFX Software Developer Kit 1.1, Sun also released the long awaited JavaFX Mobile platform. Through a Java-like scripting language (JavaFX Script) and a single API, JavaFX provides a development tool that supports a variety of platforms, from desktops to mobile devices.
