JavaFX is getting there

Just a quick note: I revisited JavaFX last weekend, downloading the NetBeans version which includes it, running some of the samples and playing around with some scripting. For the first time, I’m ready to say that I’m impressed and looking forward to building some nice looking apps with it. If you want to see more check out the online examples here:http://javafx.com/samples/

JavaFX 1.0 Released – Finally

Sun has finally released JavaFX 1.0!  Is it too late to matter? No, not really. Although Flex is doing well, its competitor, SliverLight, will not receive any meaningful adoption until MS-Visual Studio tools are released for it. This will be in 2010 when MS-VS 10 ships. Does Microsoft ever ship software late? LOL – maybe they should have called it VS 2012.

To me JavaFX is a great idea that doesn’t look very usable yet, but this is from playing with the betas etc. that were released prior to 1.0. Not sure when I’ll have time to play with 1.0, but I’ll try. Check it out yourself at the JavaFX home page.

Here’s an interview with Tony Wyant, lead engineer for JavaFX media, and here’s an excerpt:

” …[JavaFX] provides both a cross-platform video format and plays the formats available on the client machine. The FXM media format can be played wherever JavaFX can be played. Furthermore, when running on Windows, FX Script can play all the media formats that Windows Media Player can play, and on the Macintosh, all the formats that QuickTime can play…”