I don't see myself using JavaFX to implement any line of business apps. A DataGrid control with virtualization* is vital in places such as, say, front-office where data needs to be presented in tabular format.
I haven't read anything to suggest that a new language for write UIs is needed. Just look at Silverlight which uses XAML (XML) to declare a UI, it's doing fairly well. Perhaps, Josh Marinacci also left because he saw a lost cause. * http://bea.stollnitz.com/blog/?p=338 —Mohamed On 8 February 2010 11:39, opinali <[email protected]> wrote: > Raising this again... JavaFX 1.2.3 was recently released (without > notice), which begs the question: is 1.3 late, perhaps that's the > reason for this new minor update? > > Checking the JIRA again: For javafx, compiled-bind-2 is notw complete > (53/53 so they just lifted 10 bugs), compiled-bind-3 is just around > the corner with 12/15 (again thanks, at least partially, to some > rescheduling), and there's a flurry of new SoMa-bXX milestones > (probably containing thhose rescheduled bugs) of which b23 is complete > (26/6), b24 is 12/42, b25-27 empty, and the final SoMa is very close > at 204/217. Overall it seems they entered in the engame run. But > javafxc must go stable before the runtime project, because it's a > dependency, and once javafxc 1.3 is RC quality they must recompile > everything else (including other projects like Composer, Design Tool, > and god knows what else Sun is cooking) and zero in any regressions. > > The Runtime project now shows 343/591, so the fix rate looks good (and > as I expected/predicted they've been closing some groups of related > bugs in batches, e.g. tons of "implement CSS" stuff closed in a single > day). With ~250 bugs to go it's still a hard call for less than one > month, unless most of these bugs are simple or already in final stages > of development/testing (e.g. I'd expect the whole new batch of > controls to be already implemented but just needing final touches). > > A+ > Osvaldo > > On Jan 31, 1:40 pm, opinali <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looking athttp://javafx-jira.kenai.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa, you can > > have a good estimation of whether 1.2 is in the track. The javafxc > > subproject certainly is, with the first SoMa milestone (compiled-bind- > > alpha) at 100%, the second (compiled-bind-2) very close at 53/63, the > > third (compiled-bind-3) at 24/41 and the last (SoMa) at 205/218; so, > > the total remaining number of bugs seem small enough for the expected > > release in late February. But for the Desktop Runtime, it's harder to > > tell; the bug status is at only 309/588 which seems a hard call for a > > single month, but if 1.2 was any indication, the progress of the > > Runtime's bugtrack is almost worthless as an indicator of how close > > they are to shipping. > > > > A+ > > Osvaldo > > > > On 29 jan, 13:57, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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/p...), > > > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- 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.
