Java is fighting back:
/JavaFX/ <http://www.sun.com/software/javafx/index.jsp>/ is a new family
of Sun products based on Java technology and targeted at the high
impact, rich content market./
/JavaFX Script is a highly productive scripting language that enables
content developers to create rich media and content for deployment on
Java environments. JavaFX Script is a declarative, statically typed
programming language. It has first-class functions, declarative syntax,
list-comprehensions, and incremental dependency-based evaluation. It can
make direct calls to Java APIs that are on the platform. Since JavaFX
Script is statically typed, it has the same code structuring, reuse, and
encapsulation features (such as packages, classes, inheritance, and
separate compilation and deployment units) that make it possible to
create and maintain very large programs using Java technology. See the
//FAQ/ <https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_FAQ.html>/ for more
information./
I am very impressed with the demos in the site
<https://openjfx.dev.java.net/>, and the way less verbose way to
describe interfaces (/when compared with traditional Java Swing code,
and I am thinking it could even be a threath for XAML & XML, some people
on the net believe that XML is the poor man's parser, and that it is
being overutilized to create stuff that should be implemented as an
specific language
<http://www.sdtimes.com/fullcolumn/column-20060901-05.html>... well,
JavaFX is not XML... is this the start of a new trend?)/, I was also
very exited to see how easy is to add animation to Java 2D application
with this new API /(everything that can be done with Flash will be
possible... and maybe even more.../). Now... the question are:
* Will Sun release a "UI Designers Pack" for Netbeans that will be
pretty much something like Microsoft Expressions
<http://www.microsoft.com/expression/> for Java?
* Could OpenJFX be adopted by projects like OpenLaszlo?
* Is using JavaScript like languages the new trend?
* Will JSON-like stuff become the new poor man's parser?
