Maybe not so narrow a niche any more. There are (unfortunately IMO) lots of Oracle Forms and Reports folks out there that are using Java applets. Oracle really hasn't come up with a good replacement for Forms and Reports yet (ADF was too complicated, Application Express might win, BI/XML Publisher doesn't seem to be it) so maybe a really slick JavaFX replacement would work. If they really went hard-core, imagine a nice JavaFX Open Office (but I guess it would be subscriber only since we're talking Oracle).
Lloyd On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:25 AM, MassH <[email protected]> wrote: > Compared with Silverlight, it's been my experience as a programmer > that JavaFX is more elegant and you can generally get the same job > done with less code and simpler code. I also dislike Silverlight's > heavy dependency on IDE-generated code. I've hit several occasions > where I get a compiler error in tool-generated code or a runtime > exception there, and it's extra frustrating to find the root cause of > those issues. JavaFX doesn't usually need tool-generated code at all > (the composer does, but that's completely optional). > > The killer disappointment for JavaFX is the browser runtime. As > mentioned above, page scrolling is wonky, you often can't close a tab > with a JavaFX applet trying to load, the media playback is buggy, and > on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine with the Sun JDK 1.6.20 set up, I can't get > a single JavaFX applet to work (I get the loading animation > indefinitely). > > The other issue is that JavaFX is a better Swing, but that is such a > narrow niche. All client GUIs need to be in HTML/JS or maybe Flash or > maybe in a smartphone native toolkit. The amount of projects were > Swing or JavaFX is appropriate is very slim. > > Still, I appreciate JavaFX for what it excels at. > > -- > 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.
