Java applets —
JavaFX is a new (less than one year since release) software platform for building Rich Internet Applications. Having undergone three major releases so far within its first year, it’s rapidly approaching the point where people could reasonably expect it to be a viable choice for building real applications. That might be the expectation, but [...]
Kudos to Sun’s Netbeans team for the fabulous work they’re doing on the Netbeans IDE. Computer systems often require the use and integration of multiple, diverse technologies; both programming languages and system services. For example, I’ve recently been developing a system that, on the server side, uses Java and SQL as the programming languages and [...]
Sometimes, perception is, to all intents and purposes, reality. For many, the perception has been that Java is a monumental disaster on the desktop. To such people, graphical Java software is synonymous with ugly, buggy, slow and generally all-round crappy desktop software. Naturally, those people don’t want Java software anywhere near their computers. They [...]
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 [...]
Rich Green, EVP Software at Sun, kicked off the 2008 JavaOne with a keynote presentation today. He began by saying there were going to be some surprises. He wasn’t wrong; although, having said that, almost all of what he talked about is still being built. Mostly, nothing is shipping yet and so all we got [...]
Java 6 Update N aka “Consumer Java” is approaching release. It’s looking insanely great. Really. However, there are a few small, but important details that would improve the user experience if they were fixed/changed. Here’s one request, relating to the Java icon in the system tray.
Currently, when Consumer Java starts running in a web browser [...]
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 [...]
It’s a bit early in the year to be making the traditional predictions for the coming year. However, I thought this one was worth making now: I think that 2008 may be the year when we see the return of the Java applet running in the web browser.
Why? The number one reason is [...]
Sun just announced JavaFX? What is it? Here’s the short answer:
JavaFX Script – the heart of JavaFX. A new scripting language that makes it easy to code sophisticated, dynamic, animated user interfaces. JavaFX Script runs on top of Java SE – think of it as making Swing and Java2D easier [...]
As the hype around Silverlight subsides, people are beginning to realise that Silverlight is – at its core – a copy of the idea of Java applets. Quite why people didn’t see this right away is a bit of a mystery to me; but they seem to be getting it now…. which makes it [...]