JavaFX

This week I was having a conversation with my younger brother and he was telling me about this new RIA platform for Java called JavaFX (He’s an interactive Java developer). From what he told me it sounded pretty cool, a lot like version 1 of Silverlight. Here is what I found on the Sun website:

JavaFX is a powerful client technology for creating rich Internet applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across the multiple screens of your life.

JavaFX technology features a high-performance declarative scripting language, JavaFX Script, for building and delivering the next generation of rich Internet applications for desktop, mobile, TV, and other consumer platforms. To bridge the gap between user experience design and programming logic, JavaFX technology will provide a suite of tools and authoring solutions that enable unprecedented collaboration between designers and developers.

Upcoming features of JavaFX 1.0
2D Vector Graphics

• Geometric Shapes
• Strokes with various styles and colors
• Paths and Curves

2D Effects

• Alpha blending and Compositing
• Gradients and Fills
• Transformations
• Texture mapping
• Clipping and Masking
• Anti-aliasing

Media

• Native audio codecs
• Native video codes

I am excited to download the SDK and see how it works.

Along that same line, I read that the anticipated Google mobile phone could be the first phone to be based on the JavaFX Mobile phone operating system. If this is the case, then we should all be paying attention to where this platform is headed.