Finally ! a cool JavaFx example
Sun Microsystems announced JavaFX (their RIA platform) a year ago but till now all we had seen were some lame examples mostly because (I guess) the deployment platform for JavaFX wasn’t ready yet.
Sun’s yearly developer conference JavaOne is currently going on and it looks as though some cool stuff is being shown there. I saw a twitter from Dion Almaer (of Ajaxian fame) where he shared a video of a really cool demo .. even though the demo crashed a couple of times 
… it does tell you a lot about the platform
Things I liked …
- Convert a web app to a desktop app, just by dragging it to the desktop (super cool !!)
- Same code running on browser, desktop and mobile (if you believe the demo :))
- Hardware accelerated 3D
One big question I have to ask … is the web part an applet? does Sun really think people are going to get comfortable with applets again (even if the file size is now a lot smaller)?
Anyway its great to see how things are shaping up in the RIA world, if you want to learn more about JavaFX head to http://javafx.com or http://openjfx.dev.java.net/. here’s an image that presents a broad picture …
Do let me know what you think of JavaFX and how the RIA space is shaping up.
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