I have no direct knowledge of anything Oracle, but based on recent press releases Oracle
has put "the cloud" up front and center. So I'm betting a lot of resources will
go into that, and a lot of projects not in line with that goal will be reduced to
maintenance mode. Personally I see the reduced effort in mobile as a sign of this, and
possibly also this (maybe) underwhelming list. Big American multinationals have a
tendency to be managed as an 'oil tanker' instead of a 'hive', so once the ship has been
put on a certain course, everything will be focused on that. (This in no way is a fact or
a judgement - I would not pretend to know how to run a multinational - it is merely a
personal observation. I do think that, if my observation is correct, they're very late to
the party.)
Tom
On 27-6-2015 22:12, Mike wrote:
I thought you knew. Your spending a lot of time researching information
about your upcoming blog post so I thought that was part of your common
knowledge.
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Why are you asking me?
On 28 June 2015 at 05:24, Mike <mikeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
Felix how many full time Engineers does Oracle have on Javafx and Java?
How does this break up? How many open source contributors are Committing
often?
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Felix Bembrick <
felix.bembr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Kevin but I am left a little underwhelmed by this tiny list. It
seems that JavaFX is perhaps the slowest evolving technology in history in
many respects which is very disappointing.
On 28 Jun 2015, at 01:07, Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com>
wrote:
Hi Felix,
Sorry for the delay. Most of us were still pretty focused on 8u60, but
we are turning our attention to JDK 9 now.
The focus for JDK 9 is Jigsaw. The currently planned big features
(JEPs) for FX in JDK 9 are these:
JEP 253: Prepare JavaFX UI Controls & CSS APIs for Modularization
JEP 257: Update JavaFX/Media to Newer Version of GStreamer
Related to Jigasw, we intend to look into new API for heavily used
internal methods / classes since they will no longer be accessible
otherwise. We also plan to update WebKit at least one more time, and will
likely do a few RFEs such as better Hi-DPI support (with API control) on
Mac, Windows, Linux.
We don't currently plan any other big features for 9, but will
consider additional RFEs if they are important to enough developers and if
they fit into the time frame.
-- Kevin
Felix Bembrick wrote:
Anyone got anything or is there a link somewhere that talks about
these?
On 15 June 2015 at 22:00, Felix Bembrick <felix.bembr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I realise we are a long way off JDK 9 still and with crucial
features such
as Jigsaw still a little up in the air but is it possible someone
could
itemise the most likely new features, enhancements and bug fixes
that we
will see in JavaFX when JDK 9 is released?
Of course it's purely speculation at this point but it would assist
me
greatly to have some of idea of where JavaFX is heading and which
areas are
seen as most important.
Thanks,
Felix
