Will JavaFX Restore Sanity to Internet Application Development?
James Weaver in a post titled : Sanity Will Be Restored to Internet Application Development on December 2, 2008, proclaims the coming of JavaFX 1.0. To quote James Weaver –
“Yes, that’s a bold statement, but I’ve waited 13 years to be able to say it. If you’ve followed this (http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/weblog/) blog or have heard me speak about JavaFX, you know that I was disappointed with the browser wars in the late 90s that fragmented and slowed down the ubiquity of the Java Virtual Machine. Instead of writing rich-client Java applications, the last 13 years of software development has largely consisted of trying to make browsers do what they were never designed to do. If I may speak plainly, the result has been applications that consist of a big mess of varying flavors of JavaScript, HTML, etc. that leave developers overwhelmed and users underwhelmed.”
James believes the release of JavaFX 1.0 “….will be a tipping point in software development that will play a big part in restoring sanity to rich internet application development”.
Whether JavaFX will really shine or not is yet to be seen, however, its good to know that it will finally be available. You will be able to download it from JavaFX.com on December 2nd.
What do you think? Will it really have an impact of the scale that JavaFX proponents are claiming.
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JavaFX has one really exiting feature compared to other platforms: (1) Being opensource and giving access to “all” parts of itself.
However, to have an impact requires having at least the same features, say, Flex is giving. One of them is, I think, media encoding and streaming. This was also the locomotive of Flash and Flex. (For example, the ability to have your own custom video player) The reason is that without such capabilities like Media and 3D what you can do with the frameworks like Flex and JavaFX is, more or less, already possible with AJAX technologies and even easier and more “embeddable”
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