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JavaOne '08: Sun demos JavaFX platform

JavaOne '08: Sun demos JavaFX platformCool!This is cool stuff from Sun... but AIR and Silverlight? - hold on to your guns...-Deshttp://techwatch.reviewk.com/

Tags: Digital security, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-10

Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun

Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from SunYou've got things mixed upMary,You clearly do not understand the Rich internet Applications space very well ...there a lot of mistakes in the article that i have to correct ...[b]"Sun is building on top of JavaFX"[/b]The more appropriate word here would...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaFX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Sun CTO previews JavaFX-powered game

Sun Microsystems shows off a new JavaFX-powered game at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to Ken Russell and Chris Oliver of the company's JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moon Tank using the JavaFX environment.

Tags: JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, CTO, Sun Microsystems Inc., Games, Personal Technology

Videos 2008-05-07

JavaOne '08: Sun brings back Java applets

Sun Microsystems demos new JavaFX powered applets at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how the new applets can be deployed within a Web browser or dragged over to the desktop.

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, JavaFX, Java applets, Java Applet, Java, Applet

Videos 2008-05-07

JavaFX's day in the Sun

JavaFX's day in the SunGreat Demo... not!Well, When Microsoft Demoed Live Mesh, which is in direct competion with JavaFX from Sun, it worked fine. This demo, was full of bugs... but with that aside... it still is pretty cool, even for a Microsoft guy.-Brandon

Tags: JavaFX, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

JavaFX's day in the Sun

Dan Farber has some information about JavaFX from the JavaOne keynote today. It sounds like it wasn't a great day for demos but that we're starting to get a better picture of JavaFX and what the plans are. Michael Coté has some additional information about Sun's plans around Java as...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, JavaOne, JavaFX, Dan Farber, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Sun unveils JavaFX apps, Photo Flocker, Movie Cloud

Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, shows attendees Photo Flocker, an app that allows users to search for photos by tags and display the photos...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Photograph, Photo Flocker, Movie Cloud, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Movie

Videos 2008-05-06

JavaOne '08: Sun demos JavaFX platform

Here's a look at Sun Microsystems’ new JavaFX application, with Flickr and Twitter feeds running in Facebook within the browser, dragged to the desktop, and then put on a mobile phone. Sun Microsystems executives Rich Green and Nandini Ramani showed the JavaFX environment at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco....

Tags: Flickr, Twitter, JavaFX, JavaOne, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application Environment, but no tags matched

Videos 2008-05-06

JavaOne '08: Neil Young chronicles music career

Legendary musician Neil Young shows off a new multimedia project spanning his music career. Joining Young onstage at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco to demo the project--which uses Java and Blu-ray technology--is Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun executive vice president of software.

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaOne, Professional Development, Programming Languages, Career, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Neil Young, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Shakey Pictures, Java

Videos 2008-05-06

JavaFX preview coming in May with a 1.0 release "shortly thereafter"

JavaFX preview coming in May with a 1.0 release "shortly thereafter"JavaFX 3-4 times faster than Flex?This Sun fella posts some benchmarks where JavaFX is already 3-4 times faster than Flex: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2008/04/at_the_speed_of.htmlI think this must be because JavaFX uses hardware accelerated graphics, and the Flash Player doesn't (only for full-screen video,...

Tags: JavaFX, graphics, Macromedia Flash Player

Discussion threads 2008-04-06

JavaFX preview coming in May with a 1.0 release "shortly thereafter"

I've been really bad about keeping up with the news lately because we're in Europe with the on AIR tour but during our RIA Weekly podcast, Coté mentioned an article by Paul Krill which indicated that JavaFX is going to be releasing a preview version at the Java One conference...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, JavaFX, Podcasts, Programming Languages, Java, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-04-06

Is a Java power play lurking beneath Google's Open Handset Alliance?

On the heels of today's announcement by Google of the Open Handset Alliance, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has published a blog headlined Congratulations Google, Red Hat and the Java Community! The blog entry goes onto categorize the initial OHA platform called Android as Google's "new Java/Linux phone platform." Writes Schwartz:...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Free Software Foundation, Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apache Software Foundation, Blog Entry, OHA, Android, JavaFX, Openhandsetalliance.com, JME, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex

Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and FlexJavascript/QiuckTime coming to a web site near youThese benchmarks will need to revised again in the not to distant future with new entries added.Startup Time?They should add startup time (time from link-click to run) to their metrics. Man... JavaFX took...

Tags: .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Silverlight, Bubblemark RIA Benchmark, Silverlight 1.1, JavaFX, CLR

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex

I just caught that Bubblemark, which is quickly becoming the RIA benchmark source added a test for JavaFX. So now with the Bubblemark tool you have the source and the applications to compare a variety of RIA technologies. According to the post, JavaFX is really slow, but it's still in...

Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, Flex, AIR

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Why do tech journalists get Rich Internet Applications so wrong?

A lot of people are talking about Rich Internet Applications. At first people weren't really sold on creating really great experiences in the browser. Then Ajax came along and gave us a taste of how much better the web could actually be. Once people figured out that Ajax wasn't quite...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-06-28

JavaFX and the Rich Internet Application landscape

I haven't done a very good job of covering JavaFX. Partly it's because I don't come from the Java world and so I still haven't totally grasped the full significance of the announcement. The other part is that there isn't really anything to play with, so it's difficult to dig...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, JavaFX, Java

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Project Orbit launches, puts OpenLaszlo on devices

Lost in some of the hoopla last week of JavaFX was that Sun launched Project Orbit, a runtime for OpenLaszlo that takes the DHTML from OpenLaszlo 4.0 and makes it available to Java ME devices. More information is available on the OpenLaszlo Project Blog as well as the official page...

Tags: Java, Mobile-Web, OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Oracle says future of SOA is EDA; ditches 'SOA 2.0'

Oracle says future of SOA is EDA; ditches 'SOA 2.0'Java One had its fullest turnout in yearsThe writer is trying to create a false reality with this article. Or it is designed to get a response. I will bite. The JavaFX business is huge because it challenges Adobe Flash technology...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), AJAX, Web services, Oracle Corp., JavaFX, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-05-14

Sun CTO promises Flash-like experience from JavaFX and new runtime

Sun CTO promises Flash-like experience from JavaFX and new runtimeWhyLet's ignore the main reason, a desperate attempt for Sun to be relevant again and examine WHY?We already have Flash and now Silverlight, why would we need another clone based on clunky Java? All this so we can have another tool...

Tags: JavaFX, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-10

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Change is endemic to computer programming. That fact was part of a discussion I had with one of the managers here in Mountain View. Computer professionals tend to get wedded to technology they know, which to a certain extent is understandable. I know English very well, and though I can...

Tags: General, Programming, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-10