Sun Developer’s Day – WLG, NZ.

Last week I went to the Sun Developers Day the focus of the show presentation was JavaFX a new technology that Sun released last week(Already supported on Netbeans). The JavaFX is a new application development framework for Rich Applications, but is not only for Web or Desktop.

The JavaFX idea is to use the principle of WORA(Write-Once-Run-Anywhere) so you could deploy your application on the Web, Desktop and Devices. Yes devices not just mobile applications, TV applications should use JavaFX.

Something interesting that I heard during the presentation is, that if you’re planning to start a Desktop project right now, you should consider JavaFX! As AWT was deprecated, now Swing is being deprecated. Having a look inside JavaFX you will find that under the hood JavaFX uses Swing and Java2D, as Swing uses AWT.

Now you should be a little curious about JavaFX so take a look! http://www.javafx.com/

If you’re using the latest JRE version you’ll be able to detach the applet from the browser, and you’ll be surprised to see in the proccess manager of your computer that now the applets are sharing the same JVM.

Take a look at this page: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/newapplets/
* An applet may force itself into its own JVM machine instance separate from all other applets if you like: *
<param name="separate_jvm" value="true" />


If you back on the announces of July, you’ll see Sun doing the announcement about the “SwingX Project”(closed) and few weeks later the announcement about the first public draft release of JavaFX. Coincidence ?

Cheers, Keller.