Silverlight 2 and Flash In RIA News

The world of the Rich Internet Application (RIA) just took a couple of fascinating turns.   Silverlight version 2 is now out in beta; and it looks… well it looks TOTALLY AMAZING.  It can be programmed using serious, elegant, programming languages; it has great tool support; and a version of Silverlight is coming to mobile phones [...]

Sun Announces JavaFX - Positions As Flash / Flex & Silverlight Competitor

Update - I’m talking about JavaFX Script here… actually, JavaFX is more than that (more on the whole of JavaFX here).
Sun is announcing JavaFX today (its code name was F3). The company is positioning it as a competitor to Flash/Flex, Apollo and Silverlight. JavaFX is a scripting language for the Java [...]