Updated: Flash, Flex, Silverlight… and now JavaFX
Fantastic, something else to learn š Sun bloggers have been dropping hints to look toward the JavaOne conference in and around all of the Silverlight posts that have clogged up the aggregators the last week or so, and it appears the announcement for their new AJAX/RIA alternative comes in the form of āJavaFXā. JavaFX makes use of a new scripting language and utilises the Swing APIs for UI. This probably comes as no suprise, I have drummed on to my poor colleagues the last year how AJAXās days are numbered in terms of the popularity it currently enjoys, it simply cannot keep up because HTML and JS were never intended to build this ānewā breed of online app, too much reliance on the browser itself naturally brings with it serious yet fully justified limitations....