JavaFX Mobile —
With the launch of JavaFX Mobile around last week’s Mobile World Congress meeting in Barcelona, it’s time for developers to start thinking about the best ways to build mobile apps using JavaFX. The range of form factors that JavaFX handsets will have means that UIs will need to be designed that adapt to the characteristics [...]
The technical side of the JavaFX platform is progressing well since its launch in December 2008, with technical innovations being delivered rapidly. There’s still a long way still to go of course. For example: more API features; optimized “user experiences”; better IDE support; new design tools; and improved video support are all needed. However what’s [...]
Update – 12thFeb: JavaFX Mobile launch partners starting to be announced already. They include LG (world No. 3 handset maker) and Sony Ericsson (world no. 4 handset maker) on the hardware front; and Sprint and Orange on the carrier front.
Sun’s JavaFX Mobile platform will be launched at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Aside [...]
In the next few weeks, Sun Microsystems will launch JavaFX Mobile. For handset makers and network operators, this represents a huge opportunity to transform the mobile software industry. It’s an opportunity the industry should be jumping at – it might just be its savior. However, there’s a few things that will have to happen for [...]
Yesterday, I wrote up my first impressions of the new JavaFX 1.0 Runtime. I said then that, despite some bugs (which I expected, given that platform is all-new and had very little no testing), and some deployment usability issues (which I really wish some Sun folks would accept are usability issues), it was a strong [...]
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 [...]
Techcrunch is reporting that a $150M venture fund aimed at Blackberry developers, will be launched on Monday (update: it’s now launched). It’s a clear response to the $100M iPhone fund that was recently launched by Apple and Kleiner-Perkins. Taken together, that means that there’s a quarter of a billion dollars of venture capital available for [...]
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 [...]
JavaOne 2008 is almost upon us. What will the big story be this year? In order to figure that out, it’s worth taking a look back to see what the big story was at JavaOne 2007. A year ago, the big announcements were around the new JavaFX platform, most of which simply didn’t exist. [...]