On 5/10/07, 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.
Okay. I still haven't managed to actually *run* any code. Maybe Sun could have included a proper readme file in the archive. Anyway, for those interested, here's the download: http://openjfx.dev.java.net/ JavaFX is a whole new language -- the kind of glue language Java has needed forever. It's a very dynamic language and is going to appeal most to the Python and Ruby crowd. Personally, I love some of the features, and looks like it's going to fun to program in. More about the language here; https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_Programming_Language.html They've got a "do" construct that basically does what we've been talking about on this list -- start a new event loop in a new thread, while your long running task continues to execute in the current thread (you have to take care of synchronisation yourself). It's cool that they've included this in the language itself. There's also a "do later" that does asynchronous execution (similar to callLater() in Flex). If you dig programming languages, you should check out JavaFX. I don't see JavaFX as an RIA platform as such. It's just a new high-level language for creating GUI, scripts (shell scripts, etc.), and such. I'm putting it in the same category as JPython/Jython and JRuby.
