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JavaFX Preview

2008-07-31T14:30:00Z

Sun Microsystems just announced the release of the JavaFX preview today moving the JavaFX platform out of a controlled beta into a more publically accessible venue. JavaFX is packaged with the NetBeans IDE version 6, which is actually a pretty good idea in my opinion. There are a set of tutorials you can use to help get started.

On a personal note, Although Curl is my RIA platform of choice I'm pretty excited about JavaFX. I've been a long time Java developer and wrote my first Java applet in 1995. Like many people I had to move the server-side Java to maintain my sanity and career but I've always wished that Java had been more successful on the client. Perhaps JavaFX will accomplish that ... time will tell.

Comment from Richard Monson-Haefel on 2008-07-31

2008-07-31T17:14:54Z

Just spent an hour playing around with JavaFX - its not very Java like, which is fine, but folks who are looking forward to using it because its more like Java may be disappointed.

The NetBeans support for JavaFX is very beta. I'll look forward to the next candidate release which hopefully be a bit more stable. If you are looking forward to diving in to JavaFX this release is the first chance many of us have but I would recommend waiting for something a bit more stable.

Comment from Chui on 2008-08-22

2008-08-22T10:51:48Z

I too have been playing with it. Who do you think the sweet spot for JavaFX will be?

a) Existing Java apps who are starting to look stale because of WPF? or
b) is it a genuine competitor in the web space?

Memory consumption is pretty bad. I don't hold high hopes for much improvement in v 1.0

Comment from Richard Monson-Haefel on 2008-08-22

2008-08-22T13:27:23Z

Well, lets keep in mind that its a work in progress. I expect JavaFX to improve a lot between now its final release, but I wouldn't use it for production systems until then - or until after the first couple of point releases.