JavaFX provides a new language, a new media stack, and a new scenegraph. While it is built on top of the Java runtime I wouldn't use the word 'just'j any more than I'd say that JRuby is 'just a library' or Eclipse. JavaFX adds quite a lot. It does currently use Java2D underneath but that is an implementation detail. We have been very careful not to expose Java2D because our long term plan is to offer JavaFX as a unified platform across many OSes and environments, many of which do not have AWT or Java2D. For example, the version of JavaFX built on top of JavaME's CDC stack does not have Java2D underneath it.
On Jul 28, 2009, at 6:07 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > Chas Emerick wrote: > > > That said, maybe it's more > appropriate to say that JavaFX *on the > > > desktop* is just another layer on AWT? And it probably won't come > as > > > a shock that we're entirely uninterested in mobile platforms. > > > I don't think it's appropriate either :-) JavaFX is another layer on > Java2D, but all of its components, AFAIK, don't depend either on AWT > or Swing. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
