Personally I see JavaFX as an exciting technology. Unfortunately, however, it has fallen into the "Try to beat flash"-trap, which train left the station years ahead of Javafx.
If Sun did see the potential for building REAL user interface applikations, Desktop Java might have had a chance. I'm afraid that this is another great technology that will just fall off the map in a few short months. now back to topic: I would not build applications using these crud tools, as they are too simplistic for our GUI needs. There probably are use-cases for them, and I see most of them as internal tools. -- Erlend On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote: > Let's take a break from discussing the evil Apple empire and the end > of the computing civilization as we know it! Two new "drag'n drop CRUD > application building tools" will hit the street in the next few > months: Flash Builder 4 (formerly Flex Builder: > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4) and JavaFX Composer > (http://wiki.netbeans.org/JavaFXComposer). Both seem to allow to > connect to a data source (DB, web service) and generate a CRUD > interface for it mostly automatically, allowing to quickly build > simple data entry / retrieval apps. > > Now both tools seem to be encumbered right from the start: For this > drag'n drop stuff, Flash Builder relies on the server-side LiveCycle > Data Services 3 framework that comes with "Oracle pricing" (about $30k > per CPU, huge increase from version 2: > http://flex.sys-con.com/node/1264181). > JavaFX hasn't exactly taken the world by storm (see here for a rather > bleak view: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/18/javafx_under_oracle/), > and Sun's last effort in this area - Java Creator - failed. > > Microsoft has always dominated drag'n drop app building. And with > Rails/Grails there are some popular "application generation" > alternatives around, even though they shun drag'n drop. > > So, would see yourself using Flash Builder 4/JavaFX Composer to build > "real applications"? Is there a huge market for these technologies > that we just don't see because it's all just internal, departmental > apps? > > -- > 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.
