JavaFX —
If you weren’t following the various Java announcements at JavaOne 2008 last week, the following discussion between Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green gives not only a really great overview, bit also gives some visibility about the ambition that Sun’s senior management have for the “new Java”. Enjoy…
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 […]
Update 14 May: Sun has updated their on-line info (see below), and Jonathan Schwartz in his blog has stated that JavaFX will be open sourced under the GPL v2 licence.
I’ve been aware of JavaFX, Sun’s new Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, since it was first announced a year ago at JavaOne 2007 (and before that, […]
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. […]
Interesting news from Sun. Sun’s VP Java Marketing just told The Register that Sun will be making a version of Java for iPhone. It seems that they feel that the iPhone SDK offers enough freedom that they can build a JVM on top of it. Here’s the quote…
We’ve spent the last 24 hours furiously looking […]
Back in May of this year, I wrote a post predicting that 2008 would see a renaissance in interest for using Java as platform for developing consumer applications. As we approach the end of 2007, it’s clear that innovation centered on making Java suitable for consumer applications is accelerating. If you’re a developer, […]
The technical details of Android, the new Google mobile phone OS platform, are now out. There are many articles on the Web discussing the new platform, many of which seem to get things horribly wrong. So, I thought I’d try to put some perspective on Android here…
First, the web browser. At the Android […]
With all the news coverage surrounding Google’s new Android platform, I wondered what the state of play was with Sun’s new JavaFX Mobile platform was. It seems that the current state of play is this: software emulators, and actual developer handsets (built by openmoko, at a guess), will be made available near the […]
It’s been a while now since Google’s Android announcement, and as people digest what details there are, it’s clear that we’re short of more than a few important facts. Of course, the way Android’s communications are handled is entirely up to Google and the rest of the “open” handset alliance. However, for every […]