As long as they announce to maintain JavaFX. :-) Thanks !
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 18:57, sebsto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<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.
