There indeed seems to be negative buzz around JavaFX, and Oracle stopping with promoting
it, is indeed confusing, at the very least. And it is noticeable everywhere; without
wanting to wine, I really do have a nice JavaFX / JFXtras presentation, but it being
declined on all conferences for me is a signal about the interest of the community in
JavaFX. And let's be honest, Oracle's whole "let's do cloud and forget there are
companies doing this many many years already" U turn is not contributing to the mood
as well.
OTOH, from what I hear VW has chosen to use JavaFX for it's in car systems. And
I have just been on an interview for a traffic management system where they
chose JavaFX over web based. So there also is adoption. But it will be slow. My
gut says: give it time, and a bit of TLC promotionwise would not be bad.
Tom
On 30-11-2015 21:35, Florian Brunner wrote:
I read this article as well some days ago. It has some very valid points, but
all in all I think JavaFX is still the best option out there.
That said I was quite surprised that I got confronted today with the very same
article by colleagues of mine who are in charge with company-wide adoption of
various technologies. They tend to agree with the article. Currently JavaFX is
still just on our technology radar, but not promoted yet. And now they start
thinking JavFX (and probably thus Java on desktop not even speaking about
mobile platforms) won't make it and it's getting hard to convince them that
JavaFX is actually a great option.
Now reading this mail of yours, this article really seems to make waves.
-Florian
Am Montag, 30. November 2015, 17.13:10 schrieb Dirk @ Google:
Hi there,
there has been quite a shake-up in the JavaFX community last week when Shay
Almog (Codename One) first responded to a blog of mine
(dlemmermann.wordpress.com) with a lot of negative comments regarding
JavaFX and its future. He then followed up with a long blog asking the
question „Should Oracle Spring-Clean JavaFX“
(https://www.codenameone.com/blog/should-oracle-spring-clean-javafx.html
<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/should-oracle-spring-clean-javafx.html>).
I do understand that it is often a good strategy to not comment on stuff
like this because commenting would just draw attention to it, but we have
now reached the point where potential customers are questioning the
sustainability of a JavaFX-based solution. They are now wondering if JavaFX
will still be around in a few years. In my specific case the customer
demands an answer from me and my partners within the next week, and if not
convincing they will go with something / someone else. We will loose a
contract worth around one million dollars because of one blog written by
Shay with no follow-up from Oracle.
What is needed is an official statement from Oracle / Oracle employees /
JavaFX development team, saying that Oracle is still committed to JavaFX
and that it will still be around for a while. Can somebody please do that?
Dirk
