Hello Guys, I did the speech @ BruJUG yesterday night. Here is the official party line, it is *really* all what I know. (Oracle Product Management is not very keen at sharing roadmap, even with its employees)
Java FX Authoring Tool has been announced and demoed at JavaONE 2009 during the keynote. The pre-acquisition planning as published on an internal (Sun) web site was : beta for JavaONE 2010 and GA for end of CY 2010 I contacted one of the main developer and the marketing team before doing yesterday's talk. Answer was basically : "Oracle did not kill JavaFX Authoring Tool but some things will change around JavaFX and related tooling. It will be announced during JavaONE. You can deliver the "old" speech you usually deliver" Here you are - you know as much as I do. I think it is not worth speculating, just wait for another 10 days ;-) BTW, thanks Moandji for the great feedback Seb On Sep 10, 11:05 am, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night, at the Brussels JUG's JavaFX session, we got a little demo of > the JavaFX authoring tool (I hope I'm getting the name right, it might have > been JavaFX Composer? I mean the one that's standalone, not the one that's > part of NetBeans). It was an alpha preview build that was several months > old, but it looked *awesome*. > > It is itself an extremely pretty JavaFX application that makes Google's App > Inventor and the Android Eclipse plugin's visual layout tool look like a > joke, in terms of functionality. It had drag and drop layouting, lots of > pre-built event handlers and a timeline to manage keyframes, transitions, > etc. Apparently, it's a lot like Matisse (which I've never used). > > It just made a lot of sense to me to put together most of the UI in a visual > tool, then modify the generated code only for the particularly tricky/custom > bits. And if it's possible to write your own plugins or event handlers, even > that might not be too necessary. > > While JavaFXScript is a very nice language, I haven't really been interested > in JavaFX as a whole. If the authoring tool lives up to its promise, that > might change a bit. > > Moandji -- 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.
