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JavaFX : why, how and when will it be successful?

flexria — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:59:24 +0000

At the August 2008 Coding the Architecture London User Group, I presented an overview of Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX. If you've watched the video from the session, you would have seen that I wasn't very complimentary about JavaFX.

There are a number of reasons why I don't think that JavaFX is anywhere near ready for people considering building RIAs at this point in time ... quite simply, the latest preview build ships with a bunch of crippled Swing components. Granted, some of this has been talked about in the recent SDN interview; but tables are gone, tabbed panels/tabs are gone, you can't configure how scrollpanes should scroll, etc, etc. In addition to the crippled Swing components, the out-of-the-box result looks ugly when compared to Flex and Silverlight. Take a look at the screenshots in the slides from my Flex, Silverlight and JavaFX presentation for an example.

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JavaFX Applets Meet Google Chrome

flexria — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:51:38 +0000

In the JFX Custom Nodes category of this blog, graphics designer Mark Dingman of Malden Labs and I have been collaborating on an imaginary Sound Beans application. This category contains a growing series of posts in which we are demonstrating how to create JavaFX UI custom controls. This series also provide a case study in how a graphics designer and an application developer can work together effectively in developing JavaFX applications. Today I'd like to highlight the recent Google Chrome browser announcement by showing you how to create and run a JavaFX applet in Chrome. Here's a screenshot of the TableNode example from an earlier post running as a JavaFX applet in Chrome:

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Build a Frame with a ScrollPane in JavaFX

flexria — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:47:54 +0000

What follows is a simple frame designed with the JavaFX scripting language. The frame also has a ScrollPane component.

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Creating Games with JavaFX: Silveira is Having Too Much Fun :-)

flexria — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:46:12 +0000

I've featured Silveira Neto's JavaFX work (play?) in a couple of recent posts, and it appears that he's had gaming on his mind lately. Silveira is a CS student, CEJUG member and Sun Campus Ambassador at Federal University of Ceará.

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Flex, Silverlight, Java what-ever and how Google sees it

flexria — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:53:54 +0000

There's Adobe Flex. There's Microsoft's Silverlight. There's Java's JavaFX. Maybe there are others.
These are platforms that would allow developers to put real applications in the browser. And not just the request-response model (http) and the async calls that javascript allows (ajax) and the modification of the DOM tree - SPI (Single Page Inteface - no wikipedia page for it). Or another way to put it - allow real applications to the user, while the browser is only the transport. The code is compiled, object-oriented, which makes is most-importantly much faster.
Pros: faster, a lot faster. developers write in real languages (javascript is a developer hell) - Silverlight is managed, Adobe's ActionScript is ECMA (which is not very promising, I don't know it in much detail, so I can't say), JavaFX is Java. The GUI definition is largely XML in most platforms.

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