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Frank Sommers

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Flex and JavaFX Posted: Jun 6, 2007 4:55 PM
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In this interview with Artima, James Ward, Adobe's Flex and Apollo evangelist, shares Adobe's response to JavaFX, and highlights some similarities and differences between Flex and JavaFX:

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2007_james_ward.html

Do you think client-side Java would gain if Adobe and Sun decided to work closely together and turn the Flash virtual machine into a Java virtual machine as well?


Kay Schluehr

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Re: Flex and JavaFX Posted: Jun 7, 2007 5:41 AM
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Slightly OT: is Apollo evangelist a job description in the US? Not everything translates easily across cultural contexts.

Dick Ford

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Re: Flex and JavaFX Posted: Jun 11, 2007 11:40 AM
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> Slightly OT: is Apollo evangelist a job description
> in the US? Not everything translates easily across
> cultural contexts.

Heh, it's a job description at Adobe (if that).

Vincent O'Sullivan

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Re: Flex and JavaFX Posted: Jun 11, 2007 12:33 PM
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evangelist == salesman

James Ward

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Re: Flex and JavaFX Posted: Jun 26, 2007 11:35 AM
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> evangelist == salesman

Now that is just mean. ;)

I get to teach people about Flex and AIR (new name for Apollo) but I don't have to sell anything. :)

-James

levan dvalishvili

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Re: Flex and JavaFX Posted: Dec 4, 2007 5:59 PM
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with all respect to the review I have to admit that it is somewhat onesided, why dont you say anything about Flex being singlethreaded vs javaFX being multithreaded ?
that is huge difference you can run multithreaded tasks in javaFX as far as I know, so far javaFX is the only one supporting it.

Vincent O'Sullivan

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Re: Flex and JavaFX Posted: Dec 5, 2007 2:17 AM
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> ...why dont you say anything about Flex
> being singlethreaded vs javaFX being multithreaded ?...

If you want information about useful features in JavaFX, then an Adobe employee is probably the wrong person to ask.

(Incidentally, does anyone know how to get JavaFX onto eclipse via a manual download? Unfortunately, the firewalls I'm behind prevent the "Feature Updates" feature from working. I've done a Google search but drawn a blank, so far.

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