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JavaFX praised for interface, but layouts could use work

By Jeff Feinman

January 30, 2009 — (Page 1 of 3)
When Jim Weaver was looking to teach his grandson how to be a programmer, he wanted to create a little interactive world through which the youngster would be able to navigate.

In creating a user interface that would allow his grandson to drag and drop animated icons and objects onto a layout featuring Thomas the Tank Engine or other cartoon characters, Weaver took a liking to Sun Microsystems’ new JavaFX platform because it solved some longtime Java problems.

“That was a first little program for him that would teach him how to program,” said Weaver, who serves as senior vice president of technology for Marion, Ind.-based digital media provider Veriana Networks. “I wanted to generate JavaFX code from the interface. After I got into JavaFX, I found it solved a lot of the problems I had faced over the years in being able to do rich client Java. Attempts that were made to do rich client Java since Java was created in 1995 were pretty much thwarted by deployment problems.”

Jim Weaver used JavaFX to help visual tool provider Malden Labs create the 6th space user interface.

Weaver never actually created that program for his grandson using JavaFX (he settled on MIT’s kid-friendly Scratch programming language), but his enthusiasm for the platform hasn’t waned.

Sun’s eye was on solving many issues around rich Internet applications (RIAs) when it released version 1.0 of JavaFX in December, 2008. The platform targets both Windows and Mac OS X, and it can be used to construct both Web and desktop applications. Java video codecs enable video playback, and there are development plug-ins for Eclipse and NetBeans.

Sun executives believe that JavaFX is in a position to replace PHP as a presentation layer and that the platform has a more replicable development model than other RIA platforms like AJAX. But with the other major RIA platforms, such as Adobe Flex, AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight having a head start, there may be spots where Sun can be polished in coming releases.

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