What I'd like to see in JavaFX is something that is fully capable of developing most smallish, but absolutely full-featured enterprise apps.
When I say "smallish", I mean something that decidedly does not need to be developed as a NetBeans or Eclipse RCP app and would be well suited for delivery as an applet or Java Web Start app. Despite being "smallish", such applications need most of the functionality Swing gives today. Tables, trees, contextual means, keyboard equivalents, and so on need to be easy. There's no point to JavaFX in this space unless/until it gives this level of capability but makes life a lot easier than with Swing. I won't say JavaFX can't get there -- I'd just like to know when it will be as until then it is just fluff, i.e. prettiness without substance, in the enterprise app space. -- Jess Holle Ernie MacNamara wrote: > I just don't get the use case for JavaFX. We keep hearing that it's a > DSL for GUIs. Really? Is anybody looking to build an app using either > Netbeans or Eclipse RCP really going to consider FX as an option. I > doubt it. So FX is not going to be used to build any of those GUIs. On > the other end of the spectrum, for small lightweight web apps, you > have Flex in an entrenched position. From what I've read it seems to > work pretty well with Java on the back end. Say what you want about > Flex but its fast and it looks good. Those are two things I can't say > about the FX sample apps I've seen. I have to agree with Joe when he > says that the prospect of designers moving over to FX from Flex/Flash > is a pipe dream. Bottom line: we already have DSLs for GUIs. Swing/SWT > for complex apps and Flex for simple apps. > > It's just mind-blowing the magnitude of the bet that Sun has made in > what I think we can all agree is a very big gamble. Who sold this idea > to them? > > BTW, the one thing that would be interesting: embedding FX inside of > Swing apps is still not available! > > -e > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
