Here's something for the Scala fans among you: http://javafx.steveonjava.com/javafx-2-0-and-scala-like-milk-and-cookies/
And did you know that Oracle announced to open source JavaFX? http://javafx.com/faq/#4 http://openjdk.java.net/projects/openjfx/ When is Microsoft going to open source (dump) Silverlight? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Raju Bitter <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, after the failed years of trying to establish JavaFX, they were > probably looking for a language more common in the RIA world. > > And the <children> tag is ugly. :-) > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Max Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: >> The <children/> tag sure is fugly... >> >> -Max >> >> >> On 12/17/11 9:04 AM, Raju Bitter wrote: >>> >>> That's a bit surprising. I actually like the JavaFX Script syntax, >>> looked very clean and compact. >>> >>> http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2.0/api/javafx/fxml/doc-files/introduction_to_fxml.html >>> >>> <?language javascript?> >>> >>> <?import javafx.scene.control.*?> >>> <?import javafx.scene.layout.*?> >>> >>> <VBox xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml";> >>> <fx:script> >>> importClass(java.lang.System); >>> >>> function handleButtonAction(event) { >>> System.out.println('You clicked me!'); >>> } >>> </fx:script> >>> >>> <children> >>> <Button text="Click Me!" onAction="handleButtonAction(event);"/> >>> </children> >>> </VBox> >>> >>> JVM scripting language support >>> The<fx:script> tag allows a caller to import scripting code into or >>> embed script within a FXML file. Any JVM scripting language can be >>> used, including JavaScript, Groovy, and Clojure, among others. >>> >>> But who'd want to build JavaFX based UIs now? >> >>
