Watch out for Angular. They're rewriting it from scratch and Angular 2 is totally different to the current Angular. The rate of churn in Javascript web dev is much, much higher than with Java desktop app dev.
GWT has been around for a while and Google use it a lot internally. It's not likely to suffer sudden disowning or massive churn. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > GWT is probably closest to what you're looking for. You write java and it > emits HTML and JavaScript. In recent years as JavaScript has been playing > catch up though, the popularity of gwt has been on the wane. Angularjs has > been gaining a lot of traction as well as Polymer. But these more recent > frameworks are not java-like. I'm sure web developers would probably have > some better suggestions. > > Mark > On Dec 16, 2014 7:29 AM, "Jeff Martin" <j...@reportmill.com> wrote: > > > You’re spot on, Mark. I need to do a little > > lightweight-in-the-browser-without-the-JVM development, and as a > long-time > > Swing/JavaFX developer, I don’t want my fingers/brain to bleed too much. > :-) > > > > The JavaScript world doesn’t seem as cut-and-dried as Java, iOS, Android > > development. I’m hoping there’s a popular and capable standard for people > > who come from the Java world. > > > > jeff > > > > > > On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Jim Laskey (Oracle) < > james.las...@oracle.com> > > wrote: > > > > He mentioned JavaFX Script language, so I assume he wants to work with FX > > directly from Javascript. > > > > Look at https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/entry/jjs_fx as an example > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > > > On Dec 16, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Mark Fortner <phidia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Just to be clear, you're looking for a js library that has JavaFX-like > > components, an event model, threading, graphics, animation and charting. > > And runs in a browser. You're not looking to use fxml and js to build an > > application, correct? > > On Dec 16, 2014 5:13 AM, "Jim Laskey (Oracle)" <james.las...@oracle.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Nashorn JavaScript works with FX very easily. > >> > >> On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Jeff Martin <j...@reportmill.com> wrote: > >> > >> > I need to do some JavaScript development - any recommendations for a > >> JavaScript library that comes the closest to JavaFX? > >> > > >> > It seems like a couple years ago I even heard talk about making a > >> JavaScript version of JavaFX (maybe at JavaOne). > >> > > >> > jeff > >> > >> > > > > >
