I was wondering when the next version of JavaFX (1.3?) will be out. I remember hearing at JavaOne and on the podcast that it was to be out at the end of 2009 (see this thread as an example: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5415628). Now Oracle said that a _beta_ of the next release will be out before June (http:// www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/oracle_sun_java_open_source/page3.html), so the final version may not be out until August or later.
Why is JavaFX so late? Maybe the scope changed - Oracle talked about combining JavaFX with HTML, Javascript and Oracle's ADF framework. The one area where I think this delay can hurt JavaFX is in enterprise development - the 1.2 component library doesn't include a data grid or a tree AFAIK, and reports are a key feature of most enterprise apps (there's probably some open source data grid out there, but I would have rather delayed the charts from 1.2 to include data grid and tree). To, JavaFX 1.3 seems to be the first "real JavaFX release" - a complete set of components, a visual UI designer, maybe even the designer tool, (more) mature IDE support and hopefully the most important Java Web Start / applet issues ironed out by then (see here for Java Web Start talk: http://java.dzone.com/news/when-will-java-web-start-be). Oracle should also clear up the licensing situation (which parts of JavaFX will be open sourced, changing the Scenegraph library license from GPL to Apache or so). -- 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.
