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Oracle hasn't canceled JavaFX - they're discontinuing JavaFX script. JavaFX is going to live on through an API (third time's the charm for a Java UI API?).
by dminor 16y ago
Oracle hasn't canceled JavaFX - they're discontinuing JavaFX script. JavaFX is going to live on through an API (third time's the charm for a Java UI API?).
- seltzered 16y agoStill, having a separate markup/scripting language for the UI layout has become an established paradigm for anyone writing apps that need to run in a browser. side note: this action I guess has prompted the creation of "visage" http://steveonjava.com/accouncing-visage/ http://steveonjava.com/accouncing-visage/ as a JavaFX scripting alternative.
- zmmmmm 16y agoI'm actually glad to hear that. I really scratched my head over why on earth Sun invented a new language for scripting UIs even while simultaneously funding things like JRuby, or having options like Groovy or Jython they could have simply run with (albeit, with some slimming down). The mind share they would have gotten by tapping into any one of those communities would have blown the lid off JavaFX adoption. Heck, even just use Javascript / Rhino which already ships with the JVM (which would ironically be a fast way to port Flash / ActionScript developers over). But announcing yet another new language to learn that is not used anywhere else in the universe? Meh.