At JavaOne, Sun Microsystems’ yearly developer conference, Sun announced JavaFX. JavaFX has been designed from the ground up to compete with Flash, AJAX, and other technologies for the rich web application market. Run on the locally installed JRE, JavaFX allows for near universal browser compatibility. Additionally this allows for use across the broad range of platforms that Java runs on. PDA’s, cell phones, and set-top boxes will all run the exact same code as their PC counterparts. Another potential capability is the offline use of applications, which would benefit popular AJAX apps like Google Docs. Future plans for the FX family is a development interface where a designer never has to see the code. This would allow web developers with little or no programming experience to develop and deploy feature rich software quickly. Sun has a rundown on all JavaFX’s features here and you can download JavaFX Script here.
[via internetnews.com]
–Will Bertelsen