Friday May 16, 2008
Top 10 JavaOne 2008 Rich Client things
Filed under: consumerjre javafx javame javaone javase7
Here's my top 10 list from Java on the client at JavaOne this year. Enjoy x 10 !
| Top
10 |
What
is it ? |
Know
more... |
| JavaFX
SDK |
The
JavaFX SDK is (almost) here ! |
Hot
demos (there
were quite a few) and a cool new
website are all good, but signing up
for the SDK to get it next month or so is going to be
awesome. Its built with Java,
built on Java. Its built in Java. JavaFX can run parleys.com. Did I mention its fast ? |
| JDK 6 is everywhere | JDK bundled with Linux, JDK 6 for Mac |
On
stage, I mentioned that the JDK,
from the OpenJDK JDK6 project, is
bundled with the latest
release of the Ubuntu distro. Since then, its started shipping
inside Red Hat's Fedora 9, and Red Hat's Enterprise Lunix
too. Who's next ? And, have you tried the JDK 6 release for OS-X yet ? |
| The
Consumer JRE |
Get the latest beta of JRE 6u10, its quick, quick, quick. | Quick
to
download,
quick to install,
quick to start
applets. Applets that you can pull out of the web page. Applets that can live beyond the browser and drop onto the desktop. Applets that developers can write in Java or designers can write in JavaFX Script. See and believe that applets are back. |
| VisualVM |
Get the release candidate of THE single cockpit for watching, diagnosing and tuning Java applications. | If
you thought JConsole
was cool, you need to check
VisualVM out. It integrates all the management
and profiling tools for
Sun's JDK into a graphical environment. See
it for yourself. |
| On2
Media and JavaFX |
Cross
screen video, cross device
sound. |
Finally,
one rich media format you can
depend on
that spans
all the devices you own. Because it'll be built into
JavaFX. |
| JavaFX
Tools |
First
views of new tooling. |
You've
had the NetBeans support for
nearly a
year for JavaFX Script - and Eclipse
support for that matter - but we previewed a new tool called JavaFX
Distiller (see here:
jump to minute 14). If you've ever written a GUI, and needed a
little artistic help from a visual designer, this is one you need
to know about. |
| Java
ME LWUIT |
Making
better looking
applications easier on today's Java ME devices. |
This
is a new open source community
project
in early access to add some portable
fit and finish to your MIDP 2.0 applications. Shrinking some of the familar
core pieces of the Swing framework, all you need is the NetBean
Mobility pack to get started with
it. |
| Java
SE 7 sightings |
Modularity, OSGi and turbo charging multiple languages | I
talked with Bob about some of the pieces we'd like to
include in Java SE 7 that are progressing well. Here
also are my session slides with more detail. In particular, the Java
Module System, and its support for OSGi
in JDK 7 (which is gaining some
encouraging support) and the DaVinci project for accelerating
multiple language support which has started producing
prototypes. |
| BluRay,
Java and Neil Young |
Java
as foundation for HD
content. |
In
January, BluRay emerged as the winner of the biggest
format war for a
generation. So just in case you didn't know BD-J, the programming
model for interactive BluRay content (so its on all the BluRay
players), is based on Java
ME (Personal
Basis Profile, to be precise), and Neil Young announced he's
releasing his full catalog on BluRay, using BD-J to provide all the
interactivity. |
| Java
SE Performance |
Latest high performance release
of Java
SE |
Its
tuned for the racetrack and breaking
records ! |
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