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.

1. Enable IMAP support in “Settings” for Gmail
2. On the iPhone “Settings” -> “Mail” create a new “Other” account.
3. Enter the following settings
   • Incoming Mail Server
     • Host Name: imap.gmail.com
     • User Name: email@somewhere.com
     • Password: *****
   • Outgoing Mail Server
     • Host Name: smtp.gmail.com
     • User Name: email@somewhere.com
     • Password: *****
4. Click Save and go to the “Advanced” settings.
   • Mailbox Behavior
     • Change “Drafts Mailbox” to “Draft”
     • Change “Sent Mailbox” to “Sent Mail”
     • Change “Deleted Mailbox” to “Trash”
   • Incoming Settings
     • Use SSL: ON
     • Authentication : Password
     • IMAP Path Prefix: [Gmail]
     • Server Port: 993
   • OutgoingSettings
     • Use SSL: ON
     • Authentication : Password
     • Server Port: 587

(Note: Since I am using Google Apps my username will be at my own domain and not a username at gmail.com)

For the most part the switch was painless.  The first step in the process was to create an account and prove that you own the domain.  Proof is achieved by creating a custom CNAME record in your DNS that maps to google.com.  Once the domain is validated you can begin creating user accounts.  In my situation I only had 5 accounts so I created them manually, but for larger organizations they have a “csv” upload utility that imports a large batch.  Once I created all of the accounts, I added any necessary account alias (they call them nicknames) and then switched my hostnames MX records.  Google warns that it could take up to 48 hours, but in about a hour the changes had propagated to my internet provider.

If you choose to make the switch, make sure that you tell of of your users to access there new account via the web first.  Google makes you enter a “captcha” image and agree to a terms screen.  Once this is completed you can enable IMAP support and import you existing email.  Google does NOT provide an import tool, not even from one Gmail account to another.  The approach most take, is enable POP access on your old account, and suck in all of the email using there Mail Fetcher.  Make sure that if you had “labels” you recreate those before importing as well as manually create all of your filters.