On Sep 21, 5:43 am, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > That said on the competing side, Silverlight just uses the plain > old .Net languages to work and seems to be receiving praise.
Silverlight = Write interface in XAML. Write other code (the "code behind" in Silverlight lingo) in your language of choice (realistically ~90% of the time it's C# and 8% of the time it's VB.NET) JavaFX = Write interface in FX script. Write other application logic in your language of choice (typically Java but can be Scala or whatever) This really isn't (wasn't) a big difference. > Has Silverlight in the .Net world gained more traction than JavaFX in > the Java community. Definitely. As a developer I've gotten lots of employment inquiries regarding Silverlight work, while JavaFX is unheard of (server-side Java is also very common). On the other hand Silverlight hasn't seen much traction in the consumer space. Someone said that no one has heard of JavaFX outside of JavaOne and Oracle employees and JavaFX book authors; Silverlight is in a similar situation. Outside of the big Microsoft sponsored promotions like the Netflix Win/Mac client or the Olympics deal or a few smaller projects that Microsoft-centric developers rave about, I've never seen or heard of a product using Silverlight. I hear of new successful products all the time using HTML or iOS or Flash, and even a few desktop Java and .NET products, but both Silverlight and JavaFX are definite rarities. -- 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.
