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Sun releases JavaFX 1.0 for Web development


By Alex Handy
December 4, 2008 — 
Sun Microsystems has finished its work on version 1.0 of JavaFX, which enables video playback through internal codecs for the first time. Also new with the release are two development plug-ins: one for NetBeans and the other for Eclipse.

JavaFX targets Mac OS and Windows, and can be used to construct both Web and desktop applications. Octavian Tanase, senior director of the Java platform group, said version 1.0 includes the first native Java video codec. It’s a step that will take Java into the realm of rich Internet applications.

The release comes two months after Microsoft updated its own RIA-focused language, Silverlight, and just one month after Adobe Systems announced an update to Flex, which also targets RIA development. Despite the competition now crowding the marketplace, Jeffrey Hammond, senior analyst for application development at Forrester Research, said Sun still has an opportunity.

“They’re late, but I don’t think they’re irretrievably late,” Hammond said. “If you look at Silverlight 2.0, which is the first useful version of Silverlight from an IT infrastructure perspective, that’s only three months old. The thing they [Sun] have on their side is that there’s a whole lot of Java programmers out there.”

Tanase said JavaFX brings some unique capabilities to Java and is “positioned to replace a whole host of technologies on the client side.”

For example, he said, “AJAX is a technology that does not have a development model that can be easily replicated. I also believe that JavaFX is in a position to replace PHP as a presentation layer.”

For now, JavaFX is limited to Mac OS and Windows. Linux and Solaris support will roll out early next year, Tanase said, adding that the video codecs still have to be made compatible with those environments.

As for the NetBeans plug-in, “If you’re using the NetBeans development environment, it enables you to unify the development and deployment models,” Tanase said. “You can build an application, and if you stick to the common API that JavaFX is presenting, you can make a runtime decision tool where you’re going to deploy your application. NetBeans … wraps your applet in the appropriate JavaScript that enables you to deploy it to the browser. If you want your applet to be draggable [between the browser and the desktop], that’s an additional parameter you add to your deployment script.”

Sun has been demonstrating the capability with a video player, similar to the type on YouTube, that lets video be transferred out of the browser while running and to continue running even when the browser is closed.

One draw for JavaFX has been Sun’s promise that the platform would present a unified development model for both desktop and mobile platforms. That capability won’t be available until next year, but it remains a goal of the project, Tanase said.

“Mobile support is huge,” he said. “We believe we will have a very competitive software stack there.

“We’re looking to ship some advanced 3D tooling that will appeal to developers and designers at JavaOne in June. Mobile support you will see launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. We’re currently shipping a beta version of the JavaFX stack for mobile.”


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