On Dec 14, 12:33 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > With the latest evolutions, JavaFX is just Swing 2.0 for Java. So, it > will fit in a scenario of "normal" Java desktop applications, I'm no > more seeing it as a Flash / Javascript alternative. So, it's not dead, > but the original target for it is.
I think that there isn't a good business case for rewriting Swing apps in JavaFX. Due it's previous "Flash killer" focus, it can play a whole lot of HD video streams, but it probably still doesn't have a data grid or tree view in the official UI component set (or does it now). If that's still true, I'd count that as a serious issue for JavaFX. To me, the main opportunity for JavaFX are new "internal projects" that start towards the end of next year. There it mainly has to fight HTML 5 (which runs on your bosses iPad and pretty much every phone, even though you have to built a separate phone UI) and probably Flex/ AIR (which runs everywhere JavaFX runs and probably also runs directly or indirectly on a lot of phones and tablets by then). I think JavaFX starts in third place, even not taking it's rocky history into account. -- 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.
