Bruce Eckel
Posts: 875
Nickname: beckel
Registered: Jun, 2003
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Re: Has JavaFX Hurt Client-Side Java?
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Posted: Nov 9, 2008 11:49 AM
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Before Sun just had to (re)invent their own thing from scratch, they had a great opportunity: partner with the Flex folks to make a hybrid of Java and Flex for UIs. There were attempts to make this happen, but Sun decided, for some reason, that it could reinvent. That was, what, two years ago? All this time there could have been a synergy with Java and Flex, which could have been amazing. Instead we have a mediocre JavaFX with resources pulled away from Swing.
There do exist open-source libraries to connect Java and Flex, but it could have been so much better had Sun chosen not to be its usual arrogant self.
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