JavaFX 1.0 is available for download.
First promised during JavaOne 2007 and then re-promised during JavaOne 2008, the RIA framework finally reached its first public release.
Sun's vision of JavaFX project is quite ambitious. It caters to Java developers, web developers, and web/media designers. It is poised to become a "write-once-run-everywhere" solution for "all screens of your life" (reads browser, desktop, mobile, and TV).
It wouldn't be far-fetched to say that the technology (and the company behind it) will compete with everything and everybody on earth. It remains to be seen what comes out of that.
Where I see it fit naturally is Java development on mobile devices. While JavaME has a whooping install base there (ever heard of Blackberries?), from a developer prospective it sucks, to put it bluntly. JavaFX has a very strong opportunity in this market segment.
JavaFX runtime for mobile devices will be release in spring 2009.
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