You misunderstood, I guess. JavaFX is alive and kicking, and has been announced (for the third year in a row!) at JavaOne.
JavaFX *Script* on the other hand, that's probably old hat now. It might find a life in the community, there's nothing stopping the language from continuing on, but due to relatively low usage numbers (through no fault of the language!) I'm not optimistic. On Sep 27, 6:33 pm, Jan Goyvaerts™ <[email protected]> wrote: > This weekend I went to a book fair; mainly huge quantities of old and end of > stock books. > > Looking to the software engineering books I realized because Oracle threw > Java back to the iron age, these were actually pretty up to date ! Java SE 6 > platform : still the mainstream JDK for the year to come. Swing : because > JavaFX has been killed, this is still the mainstream GUI api for the two > years to come ! At least ! > > And all those books at home I put aside before reading them (ie. Filthy > right clients, Scala, ... ) because I was starting with JavaFX... they're up > to date again ! > > THANK you oracle ! :-D -- 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.
