A first glance at the JavaFX API
December 7th, 2008
JavaFX from Sun Microsystems is a new platform for rich internet applications. Its purpose is to bring Java Applets on par with Adobe Flash, both in terms of productivity for the development of content and in the achievable end user experience.
The JavaFX API is centered around a 2D scene graph. The scene graph is well equipped with node types, including various shapes, transforms, images and media objects. Static and animated effects can be easily applied to nodes.
This is all very, very nice. But I don’t see yet a clear advantage over Flash. What can I do with JavaFX, that I can not achieve with Flash? For example, Flash currently lacks a 3D scene graph – will there be one in JavaFX?
Anyway. Competition is always a good thing. I am looking forward to future versions of both JavaFX and Flash.
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