I have seen that some people have expressed that since Net Bean is free, it will eventually attract more developers than Flex. There are so many JAVA developers out there and I guess when they will come across to pick a RIA technology may be they will pick JavaFX.
By the way got some interesting articles: http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2007_james_ward.html http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/content/flex-3-vs-silverlight-and-javafx-is-adobe-listening.html http://www.insideria.com/2008/02/hello-flex-silverlight-and-jav.html On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for that info Chet, you're definitely in a unique position to offer > insight. > > Would I be right in saying that compared with FX Script (ie, without writing > Java2D / Swing code), AS3, Degrafa/FXG and MXML provide a lot more power in > terms of custom component and skin creation? This is the way it seems, but > that could be completely the fault of Sun bungling their PR as usual ;-) > > I'm also interested in the differences and similarities between JFX's > bindings and those supported in Flex if you can find the time to elaborate > on the subject. > > Cheers, > > -Josh > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Chet Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> I would be curious to find out how others view the platforms, especially >> from the standpoint of external application developers, but having been on >> the inside of both of these projects, here are some points of comparison. >> I'm attempting to be objective here and just point out some of the areas to >> consider. But since I used to work at Sun on Java/JavaFX and now work on the >> Flex team at Adobe you should filter appropriately. >> >> >> >> - Maturity: One of the reasons that you haven't heard much about >> JavaFX to date is that it's actually not yet released. Supposedly this will >> happen in the very near future, so maybe we'll all hear more about it at >> that time. >> >> - Language: Although many of the underlying capabilities of >> JavaFX rely on the Java SE platform, JavaFX itself is based on a new >> scripting language (not Java, not JavaScript, not ActionScript, but a new >> scripting language entirely). One notable differences between the languages >> of JavaFX and Flex is that Flex uses MXML for its declarative aspects, and >> ActionScript for the programmatic aspects. The JavaFX language combines both >> of these elements, having aspects of declarative and programmatic in the >> same code. >> >> - GUI capabilities: Both platforms offer GUI components, >> graphics, animation, and databinding capabilities, thought the platforms >> differ widely in syntax and capabilities of these different features. >> >> - Tooling: Most of the tooling so far announced for JavaFX are >> more on the code developer side; editing plugins for NetBeans, plus export >> plugins for Illustrator and Photoshop (they produce PNG files from the >> layers in the project). On the Flex side, there's the FlexBuilder IDE and >> the in-development tools such as Flash Catalyst for designer/developer >> workflows and FXG roundtrip import/export from/to the CS tools including >> Catalys for the graphics tags in the Gumbo release of the SDK. >> >> - Runtime availability: The availability of the JavaFX runtime is >> basically that of the Java platform (if a user's machine does not have the >> proper release of Java (I believe it will require the latest updated 10 >> release), they will need to download/install it). The availability of Flex >> is basically that of the Flash platform of the appropriate version (e.g., >> Gumbo will run on FlashPlayer 10). >> >> >> >> Chet. >> >> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of hworke >> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 8:19 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [flexcoders] JavaFX and Flex how do we compare? >> >> >> >> Hi I just read the following news where I found that >> SUN is also coming up with their RIA technology and >> it says that it will take on AJAX and Silverlight. >> It will also have desktop runtime like AIR, I guess!!! >> SUN was also in MAX, San Francisco and there they also >> talked about it. Now I want to know how do we compare >> JavaFX and Flex? >> >> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20081118/tc_infoworld/117780 >> >> http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/07/javafx-javaone_1.html > > > -- > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > Like the cut of my jib? Check out my Flex blog! > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > :: http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ > :: http://twitter.com/sophistifunk >
