Thursday October 01, 2009
Thursday October 01, 2009
Interview with JavaFX Developer Dean Iverson
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Interactive recently had a conversation with JavaFX
developer Dean
Iverson. Dean has been writing software professionally for more
than 15 years and is one of the co-authors of the recently released Pro
JavaFX Platform book,. He is currently employed by the Virginia
Tech Transportation Institute where he is a senior researcher and
rich client application developer. He also has a small software
consultancy called Pleasing
Software Solutions which he co-founded with his wife. Dean wrote his first lines of JavaFX code at JavaOne in 2007 and developed his first JavaFX application in the summer of 2008 on the preview SDK. With this preview SDK, Dean built a small Web service client for work that he reports “is still in use today.” Dean noted that at the time he was learning JavaFX, “the best source of information was compiler developers.” He subsequently got involved with the Pro JavaFX Platform book with co-authors Jim Weaver, Stephen Chin, and Weiqi Gao because “I loved the language and the runtime and wanted to help spread the word about this awesome new technology stack to a wider audience.” When asked what he liked the most about JavaFX Dean had a lengthy list of favorites to include: the ability to bind to arbitrary expressions, the declarative syntax, the runtime's CSS-like syntax for styling applications, along with the ability to easily interface with Java code. Dean summed it up by saying: “Suffice it to say that JavaFX has a lot of advanced features, and for me personally it does all this in a way that makes sense. It fits my mind like a glove, so to speak.” |
 Dean Iverson |
| Dean actively uses JavaFX at
work for small- to
medium-sized Web service clients, which he said “is really the
sweet spot for the technology at the moment.” Looking to the
future Dean noted that “JavaFX's killer feature is being able to
unify development for all of the devices we see today.” He
said continued applet support for the mobile and TV is critical to
ensuring people get the rich user experience they have come to expect
these days and that “JavaFX has the potential to greatly
simplify development in a world populated by such disparate computing
platforms.” Click here to read more of Dean's interview. |
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