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JavaFX: New Paradigm in
Rich Internet Applications
“Most scripting languages are oriented at
banging out Web pages. This is oriented around
interfaces that are highly animated.”
—James Gosling, [1]
“There are parts of the world where a person’s
desktop computer is their cell phone, and that’s
the kind of end point that we’re going to et
to.” —James Gosling, [2]
It is a natural phenomenon to think about
learning and adopting new technologies while
there exists some well-established and popular
ones, it is the scenario prevailing with the rich
internet application (RIA) development
landscape. There has been a constant demand
for RIAs to provide interactive content
applications and services that would run on a
variety of clients with new features and
capabilities. RIAs are basically the web
applications that have the features and
functionality of traditional desktop applications.
They typically transfer the processing necessary
for the user interface to the web client but keep
the bulk of the data (i.e., maintaining the state
of the program, the data etc) back on the
application server.
To simplify and speed up the creation and
deployment of high-impact content for a wide
range of devices, Sun Microsystems announced
JavaFX, a family of products based on Java technology to create Rich Internet applications
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JavaFX: Sun’s New Product
Family and Technologies
The Java revolution, which started more than a
decade ago, gains even more momentum with
the arrival of JavaFX. It is a new innovation
targeting the billions of consumer devices and
computers powered by Java technology.
JavaFX comprises a comprehensive set of
runtime environments, widgets, development
tools, and scripting environments. It aims to
provide a consistent user experience across a
wide variety of devices including desktops, (as
applets and stand-alone clients) set-top boxes,
mobile devices and Blu-Ray players.
Sun Microsystems first announced JavaFX at
the JavaOne developer’s conference in May
2007. The JavaFX products are intended to
create Rich Internet applications (RIAs).
Currently JavaFX consists of JavaFX Script and
JavaFX Mobile (an OS for mobile devices),
although further JavaFX products are planned.
Sun plans to release JavaFX Script as an open
source project, but JavaFX Mobile will be a
commercial product available through an OEM
license to carriers and handset manufacturers.
Now, JavaFX is going to compete with Adobe
AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight technologies to
occupy space in the current RIA market.
Emergence of JavaFX
JavaFX began as a project by Chris Oliver called
F3 which stands for “Form follows function”,
and its purpose was to explore making GUI
programming easier in general.
F3 attempted to demonstrate that we’re not
exploiting the full capabilities of the Java platform
for GUI development. Taking together the
supporting tools like F3, Java platform is highly
competitive with or superior to competing GUI
development platforms such as Macromedia
Flash/Flex/Open Laszlo, Adobe Apollo, Microsoft
WPF/XAML, Mozilla XUL, AJAX/DHMTL. |
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Oct 2007 | Java Jazz Up | 9 |
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