JavaFX Back in Contest

08/06/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Sun JavaFX

Or so it might seem. A month after JavaFX has been written off, having been called too programmer-centric and user-unfriendly, and our in-house trend check presenting its declining presence in the RIA scene, Sun made an announcement that makes a difference. Sun Microsystems finally released the beta of a new SDK for JavaFX that contains three [...]

Trend Check on Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX

07/01/2008 05:24 pm by Flex RIA United in Sun JavaFX

It’s almost half way into 2008. I think it’s about time to have a reality check on what’s going on in RIA space. Specifically, what’s up with Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX, the so called RIA trio. I believe what people want and look for show the best way to measure the trend. That’s [...]

Pivot: Bringing Back the Java Applet

06/18/2008 05:00 pm by Flex RIA United in Sun JavaFX

Pivot is an open source java framework aimed at bringing the now relegated Java Applet into the competition among rich application design tools. It borrows ideas from the large, old, unevolved Swing toolkit, but has advantages over it like declarative UI, common data model, web services integration, and cleaner implementation of MVC architecture. The applications, which [...]

JavaFX the Odd Man Out?

06/14/2008 02:39 pm by Flex RIA United in Sun JavaFX

According to Matt Stephens at the Register Sun Microsystems may be poised to lose a bundle of money on their RIA application JavaFX. With Adobe and Microsoft squaring off for a fight in the RIA field Sun may not have the muscle to grab a large enough market share to make JavaFX profitable. Sun is notoriously [...]

It Might JavaFX Should Be

01/15/2008 04:12 pm by Flex RIA United in Sun JavaFX

Among the three major contenders in the RIA race, Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR, Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX, the former two really are traveling on the same route, XML GUI markup. However, Sun JavaFX looks up at Flash as a role model and goes to a different path to make its JavaFX scripting language similar to the [...]

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