JavaFX fails.. big time! and I say this after spending a few weeks playing with it. Its still tied up to a lot of old Swing components for its underlying funct

JavaFX fails.. big time! and I say this after spending a few weeks playing with it. Its still tied up to a lot of old Swing components for its underlying functionality. The browser plugin takes FOREVER to load and literally crashes safari on my mac. Custom component development is difficult. They introduced a new language called JavaFX script which alienates Java developers and offers not much in terms of new features. Their "declaritive UI building" technique with the JFX script is ugly looking and unintuitive compared to flex MXML or silverlight XAML. They still don't have a good WYSIWYG UI building tool. It lags behind Flash in terms of installed base of the runtime. Both Microsoft ( through expression studio ) and Adobe (flash catalyst) offers integration with photoshop and in the case of Flex, its an even closer level of integration through FXG. Sun had the chance to change everything back then with applets, it failed and now JavaFX is too little and too late. EDIT* and Flex is opensource too and IMO the code base is a lot more well written.