I have previously posed questions about the limits of performance that can be expected with JavaFX and also the kind of applications for which it is suitable.
In response to this and other questions from JavaFX developers a project was created to develop a Tower Defence game in JavaFX. Has this project been abandoned? Is there a recent release with a working game? Last time I checked the game was at a stage where it showed a few enemies approaching but that was about it. I am still very interested in this whole topic. From my own personal endeavours I have found JavaFX (in general) to be disappointing when it comes to performance. Even with the latest builds of JavaFX 8, the animations in Ensemble are quite choppy and not at all smooth on both of the (Windows) machines I have run Ensemble on. On the same machines however, even complex animations that I have developed using OpenGL and C++ are very smooth indeed. I am principally a Java developer and do not want to have to use C/C++ for my projects but if there is something inherent in JavaFX that prevents it from performing at an adequate level then I would like to know about it. 1. Can someone from Oracle please outline the full range of applications for which JavaFX is or will be suitable for? 2. Is there something inherent in the JavaFX architecture (such as CPU/GPU interaction, the performance of the JVM or the Java language itself) that limits its suitability and thus effectiveness in advanced animations/visualisations? 3. Is this choppiness and lack of smoothness I have experienced typical of JavaFX performance or is it some issue with my environment/drivers etc.? 4. Is JavaFX more targeted at form-based UIs rather than high performance graphics? 5. Do you have any other comments on JavaFX and its suitability for advanced animations and visualisations? Thanks, -jct
