December 4th, 2008
JavaFX Q&A
To learn more about the technical aspects of today’s launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the interview with Jonathan Schwartz.
[ Read: Sun launches JavaFX 1.0, and Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX ]
[Ed] Q. What is Sun announcing today?
[Eric] Today we ship JavaFX for the desktop. This is the culmination of a couple of years work from us. It’s a major innovation in the Java space related to enabling developers to create really rich, immersive media applications across browsers, desktops, mobile, television, you name it.
[Octavian] You’ve recently covered the release of Java 6 update 10, which laid the groundwork for a lot of this development to be able to take place on the client side, so this will fit right in.
[Ed] Q. What is JavaFX?
[Eric] The way to think about JavaFX is that from the beginning FX was designed and built in Java, it runs on top of Java, so the announcement we did previously around Java 6u10 and the amazing things we did with performance and applets, were all designed to be sort of the foundational piece for FX. FX layers on top of Java, and it’s designed to provide Java with an amazing presentation layer. It’s also an application framework for future applications.
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Ed Burnette is a professional developer and author of several articles and books about computing including Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform, 2nd Edition. For disclosure of Ed's industry affiliations, click here or to view his full profile click here.
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