On Aug 30, 8:45 pm, JamesJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Is JavaFX so young that no one is actually using it? Anyone love it or hate > it? Anyone?
We've been using JavaFX since it was called F3. I believe our first production release was just after it got the name JavaFX, and we were using an alpha build. Generally, I like the language. The best thing about it is that it lets developers speak the same language as designers (opacity, filters, colors). It also has simple function pointers (sorry, the javafx name escapes me at the moment) and more specific access modifiers and triggers/binding for variables. There have been lots of frustrations with it, though: lack of maven support, lack of serious video support, lack of serious HTML support, odd distribution/runtime stuff, its ever-increasing divorce from Swing, rough-ish threading, and the fact that it is as forcible as it can be about being only a UI language. It works well for us as on our kiosks, and is quite stable. Will it survive, though? I don't know. While our original application was quite rich and, er, "swoopy", maintaining a delicious user interface has never been a priority, and I'd bet a DHTML webapp could replace it at this point. Pat. -- 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.
