This morning Sun released the JavaFX Preview SDK. This bundled up release includes NetBeans support, “Project Nile” which adds Photoshop and Illustrator into the JavaFX workflow, and, of course, an overall pre-release version of JavaFX, Sun’s RIA framework.
Last week I talked with Nandini Ramani, Director of Engineering for the JavaFX Platform at Sun. We first sat down for a short overview, and then jumped into a short demo of the JavaFX SDK.
Interview
Nandini gives us a quick overview of the preview release and then we jump into a description of the common workflow for developing and deploying JavaFX widgets and applications:
Demo
We start out seeing a demonstration of JavaFX’s video capabilities and then jump into NetBeans to show of several other JavaFX-based widgets:
Disclosure: Sun is a client and sponsored these videos. Adobe is a client as well.