Re: JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-16 Thread Mike Hearn
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 su

Re: JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-16 Thread Ali Ebrahimi
if you can not forget java just use ZK framework. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Jeff Martin 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 m

Re: JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-16 Thread Mark Fortner
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 fr

Re: JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-16 Thread Jeff Martin
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 th

Re: JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-16 Thread Jim Laskey (Oracle)
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 wrote: > Just to be clear, you're looking for a js library that

Re: JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-16 Thread Mark Fortner
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)" wrote: > Na

Re: JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-16 Thread Jim Laskey (Oracle)
Nashorn JavaScript works with FX very easily. On Dec 15, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Jeff Martin 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 Java

JavaScript library for JavaFX fans?

2014-12-15 Thread Jeff Martin
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