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In the first week of May, many in the Java community will meet at JavaOne in San Francisco. It’s the biggest Java conference of the year. At last year’s JavaOne, Sun announced the new JavaFX brand, aimed at generating a renewed interest among developers for creating consumer applications by using Java. One big announcement was [...]
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, [...]
As the technical details about Android, Google’s mobile phone operating system, begin to surface, we’re starting to get the first glimpses of how it compares to other upcoming phone OS platforms. One key question is: how will Android compare to Sun’s JavaFX Mobile platform?
While both Android and JavaFX Mobile seem to be what you [...]
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 [...]