Having done a few small projects with JavaFX: I really like the scene graph based graphics. It allows easy creation of excellent, imaginative interfaces. Performance is weak. Tools are weak. The fact that the licence tries to force you into a web distribution model is bizarre to me. My understanding is no executable jars allowed with FX.
The FX environment is still very young. It changes a lot between releases, and many "standard" components are missing or newly implemented. But this seems to allow them to learn from the lessons of the past. If they stay committed to the path, eventually it could be a great productivity tool for GUIs. It is exciting to see the progress. I cross my fingers that one day it will have a very compelling value proposition that will make it competitive with the other stuff. The language is good and bad. Binding can be used to make interactions very nice. Declarative construction syntax is handy. Lack of generics makes real world interfaces with existing Java/Scala just painful. If the scene graph stuff were to be made easily usable from Java and other JVM languages, I think JavaFX would have trouble standing on it's own. -- 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.
