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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 [...]
Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has been getting a fair bit of publicity in the last week or so for a recent blog, entitled – JavaFX Hits 100,000,000 Milestone! – in which he called the news that Sun has shipped 100M copies of the JavaFX run-time “extraordinary”.
Some have been reacting negatively to the news, suggesting that [...]
Back in May 2007, I predicted that 2008 would see a renaissance in the use of Java Applets in web browsers. In the coming months, we’ll find out if I was right: the first beta version of the new “consumerized” version of Java (the so-called Consumer JRE aka Java SE 6 update N aka Java [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft has just released a product called Popfly; right now, it’s an invitation-only alpha release (see the web-site). What is Popfly? It’s an easy-to-use software tool that lets pretty much anyone create simple Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and simple video games quickly and easily. And, by “anyone”, I mean that even people that [...]
Microsoft has just announced the details of its plans for building the .NET runtime and .NET class libraries into its new Silverlight, cross-platform, cross-browser Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. It’s an important announcement. The devil is in the detail with all this stuff, and from what Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie has said, I [...]