JavaFX Preview SDK - What’s In, and What’s Out
The release of the JavaFX preview SDK is now imminent. Update: The JavaFX Preview SDK has now been released. So - what’s in the preview release, and what will people have to wait for until the full release? One of the big pieces of information is that there will be no support for cross-platform, streaming video in the preview release. The preview SDK is, however, supported on both Windows and Mac OS X (although no browser support for the Mac) - so interested Mac OS X developers will be able to start experimenting with JavaFX. There’s no Linux or Solaris support coming until version 1. Here are all the details…
What’s In The Preview SDK
- 2-D vector graphics, with the 2-D graphics effects you spect (transparency, transformations, anti-aliasing etc)
- Animation - regular and key frame-based
- Standard UI elements - all the basics are there
- Video/audio playback - whatever native codec you already have installed
- Supported on Windows
- Supported on Mac OS X (needs Java SE 6, so not in a browser)
- Netbeans support - syntax highlighting, debugging, profiling
- Basic design tools - export to JavaFX from Adobe Illustrator
What’s Out Until Version 1
- Advanced text rendering
- Animation - no path-based animation
- 3-D vector graphics and effects
- Advanced UI elements e.g. accordion
- Video/audio playback - cross-platform (aka Flash aka ON2 TrueMotion VP6), streaming video
- Video recording/encoding
- File system or network access to data
- Basic design tools - export from Adobe Photoshop
- Linux and Solaris support
- Reflection
Conclusion
It’s unfortunate that there’s no support for streaming video, or Flash format video in the preview SDK. Nevertheless, there seems to be enough there for people to be getting on with; and early adopters will still be able to build video and audio players that play back video using native system codecs, while waiting for the cross-platform, streaming video support to be release in version 1. When JavaFX version 1 ships, it will be supported on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris - which is a good range of plaforms. JavaFX applets on Mac OS X will need to wait until Apple develops a suitable Java SE 6 plug-in. JavaFX Mobile is coming about a year from now (and don’t be surprised if that means Blu-ray as well), which will hopefully quickly extend the ability to run JavaFX software on billions of mobile phones and other devices.
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