A scripting language from Sun for creating rich multimedia-based user interfaces in Java from desktops to handhelds. Introduced in 2007, JavaFX Script is the core of JavaFX, while JavaFX Mobile provides a Linux and Java-based platform for writing smartphone applications. See Java.
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- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- 50 questions asked and answered on Android
- At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
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- Eric Schmidt has an interview that was posted today in which he declares that the next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet: Second: The most obvious large space of advertising is the mobile internet. Every German has a mobile phone. Just take the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Technology and the costs of change
- Ever get the feeling that you've got hold of an important idea but can't quite get it straight in your head? That's how I've felt in our discussions of the role user interfaces and perceptions have in defining the differences between what we usually do in applications development...
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- JavaOne '08: Sun demos JavaFX platform
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-10
- JavaOne: The week in video
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- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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- Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Review: Verizon UM150 USB EV-DO modem Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun News.com: AMD revises server road map Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: How long can AMD...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
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- Sun Microsystems shows off a new JavaFX-powered game at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to Ken Russell and Chris Oliver of the company's JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moon Tank using the JavaFX environment.
- Videos 2008-05-07
- Sun wants consumers to innovate
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- Videos 2008-05-07
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- Sun Microsystems demos new JavaFX powered applets at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how the new applets can be deployed within a Web browser or dragged over to the desktop.
- Videos 2008-05-07
- JavaFX's day in the Sun
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- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun
- At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others. Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- News to know: Vista troubleshooting, RIM, XP SP3, Apple, SAP
- Notable headlines: XP SP3: Now on Windows Update Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools [See Gallery] David Morgenstern: Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.x too dark? Larry Dignan: Cisco third...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- JavaFX's day in the Sun
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- Blog posts 2008-05-07
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- Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, shows attendees Photo Flocker, an app that allows users to search for photos by tags and display the photos...
- Videos 2008-05-06
- JavaOne '08: Sun demos JavaFX platform
- Here's a look at Sun Microsystems’ new JavaFX application, with Flickr and Twitter feeds running in Facebook within the browser, dragged to the desktop, and then put on a mobile phone. Sun Microsystems executives Rich Green and Nandini Ramani showed the JavaFX environment at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco....
- Videos 2008-05-06
- Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- The ever-changing definition of RIAs and how people are killing it
- There's a long and mostly good article about various RIA technologies over at eWeek. I say mostly good because the author, Jim Rapoza, gives a pretty unbiased view of a lot of technologies. It's a rundown that we the entire space needs more of and that I don't feel qualified...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- News to know: Microhoo redux; Mobile Linux; Jive; Google; Let XP die
- Notable headlines: Yahoo launches 'stock market for ads' Larry Dignan: The three week Microhoo countdown begins... Mary Jo Foley: Ballmer tells Yahoo board: Get off the pot Microsoft's letter to Yahoo Paula Rooney: Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile Linux is poised for commercial takeoff in...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
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