This Ain't Your Dad's Java (podcast, 4:36—7:25, transcripted):
Unless you are Korean or read Korean press, you'll hear it hear first. At the Sun Tech Days in Korea Rich and I decided to announce the date that FX would ship to the public. It never got picked up outside of Korea.
Even though there were 2000 people and I was waiting to see for it to get piked up but it didn't. I'm going to say it again here and see it if get picked up this way.
We quietly say it in a number of places then we try to figure out when people figure it out.
We actually announced that we are going to ship FX Desktop 1.0 on December 2. We have an event planned in San Fransisco. We are on track for the deliverable. We felt like it was great to make the announcement overseas as opposed to doing it in the US and give all of our partners in Korea a "you heard it here first."
So this is technically "you heard it here second," the first time in English, maybe, ... So we are going to ship on December 2. Again the engineering team is on track. We had originally hoped to get it out a little bit earlier then this. We were still within the window we set to the public at JavaOne. But we've found a couple of issues we want to look around media performance, and just getting the frame rate and a couple of things up just even beyond what the minimum requirement would be, but to what we as real Java developers would want.
There are a couple of things we want to do: a little polish time, quite honestly on the marketing side we've been working on our web site. If you've been to Javafx.com, ... we sort of did JavaFX.com, initially delivered at JavaOne. It was really a gorrila effort. It was actually done out of our engineering organization. It was sort of a labor of love of just a few folks. We've got a lot feedback from users about that site, it usability, readability, all that good stuff, things that were not shocking to us.
So we've actually gone off and designed a full beautiful site. It' very pretty. It's actually turned out really really well. So I think when JavaFX.com re-rolls out, gets its update, people will really like not only the visual changes we've made to the site but the content of it. It's top notch.
People have been just busting their butts inside the building to get that ready. On December 2 FX really goes out of the door. It's truly an 1.0 product. We are all really really excited about it.
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