Will JavaFX live up to its hype?

Filed in archive Application Development on May 12, 2008

Sun plans to create some ripples if not flutters with JavaFX. It is working towards creating a desktop version of JavaFX which would see the light of the day by fall. So what all you can expect from JavaFX.

It will be a scripting language similar to ActionScript by Adobe enabling programming to be run in Flash Player. It would be working similarly to JavaScript and powering the interactive user applications in Ajax browser window. Also expect a timeline sequence engine so it brings the scope of animation and synchronization between multimedia sound and video roll out. You can also expect an option of producing user interfaces for web applications running inside the browser window or outside the workspace of your desktop.

JavaFX is also being visualized as an initiative to harmonize powerful back end programming on multiprocessor server with rich presentations for end users regarding which Adobe, Microsoft and Sun have been facing issues. Developers will even be able to produce user interface for web applications running inside the browser window or outside your desktop workspace. Sun even has plans to come up with some incremental tools which would add some jazz to the front end. Now it needs to be seen how much JavaFX is able to live to its expectations.