What does Sun think it’s doing?

08 May

Posted by Andy Brudtkuhl under Development, Web

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Will JavaFX be able to compete with Adobe, Microsoft, PHP and existing Javascript libraries? No.

Will this in combination with open sourcing Java bring it back to mainstream? No.

Will Sun’s support of OpenId make it a formidable candidate for single-sign-on and bring it to the enterprise? No.

What does Sun think it’s doing? Can anyone answer this?

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Mark Woodman

May 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
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Based on their announcements and looking at some code, it looks like Sun is trying to make it easier to do rich-media and mobile apps. The mobile angle in particular is a compelling one… if this works out to be what they want it to be, the compat problems with JavaME may be completely OBE.

The potential appeal to Java developers - and there are a few of us out here :) - is substantial.

If you fire up the JavaFXPadDemo, you can see your code edit results in the GUI in real time. Having worked on GUI apps in both Swing and C#, I have to say I absolutely loved that part.

The declarative aspect to JFX is novel; I’m not sure how much that will help your standard Java progger, but it makes the switch from PHP5 and JS pretty easy. I started playing with it and was pleased with how “obvious” some things became.

Killer app positioned to take-down Silverlight or Apollo? I’d say no. A great new set of platform possibilities for current or prospective Java proggers, I’d say absolutely yes.

That is, of course, if JFX doesn’t become another applet fiasco. :)
Andy Brudtkuhl

May 9th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
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It just seems to me to be too little too late - but I’m not a java developer. I would imagine this comes with great pleasure to you java devs out there.

Mark - thanks for your comments. It’s nice to hear from a Java developer on this.

Let’s hope it’s not an applet fiasco :)