Yeah maybe this needs a bit more explanation. Even though RIA stands for Rich Internet Applications, apparently for the people in Sun, RIA can also refer to Rich Applications in the desktop and in mobile devices.
In their own words: "JavaFX Script will enable developers to more quickly and easily develop RIAs and next-generation services that can be proliferated across virtually any device ..." https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_FAQ.html So yes Manish, this won't compete against Flex or Silverlight, my mistake. Probably will compete with Apollo or WPF but i guess if that's the case then this topic is maybe in the wrong list. Sorry :P Diego --- In [email protected], "Manish Jethani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/9/07, dmiramontesval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://java.sun.com/javafx/ > [...] > > > So now we have a new player, which on my personal opinion considering > > the position of Java in the market, might bring some good and sane > > competition to this game called RIA. > > From what I can tell, it's just a new language for creating > Swing-based applications. Another layer of abstraction. Are these > applications going to run in the browser? What runtime -- the JVM? > Then there's nothing to see here. > > I've just downloaded the tarball and am beginning to play with it, but > I'd love to know how this challenges Flash and Silverlight if at all. >
