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 ! |
Posted by dannycoward ( May 16 2008, 03:23:28 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [15]
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Stupid question: if JavaFX is going to be part of the JDK/JRE, JavaFX will contain ON2's codec, and the JDK/JRE will still be GPL licensed, will this mean that the ON2 codec will also be GPL licensed?
Posted by Mikael Gueck on May 16, 2008 at 05:43 PM PDT #
Another stupid (?) question - it wasn't clear from the architecture diagram you posted ( http://java.sun.com/javafx/images/javafx_platform.jpg ) -- will JavaFX be built into the standard JRE runtime, or is it an optional add-on?
In other words, if next year Joe User goes and downloads the standard vanilla Java runtime install for his PC, is the JavaFX layer automatically included, or an extra option? Thanks.
Posted by J. Roam on May 17, 2008 at 07:46 AM PDT #
1) almost noone outside Sun uses 1.6 so it's not "everywhere" by far outside of the demonstration laptops at JavaOne
2) JavaFX has been "almost there" for almost a year
3) speed is one thing, stability is another. We rejected JSE 1.6 for stability problems. On the desktop it may not matter much if it runs out of memory after a few hours, on the server where it needs to stay up for months at a time it matter a lot
4) JSE 1.7 is going to continue the mismatch between what users value and what marketeers and researchers like. We want to have a stable platform that's not constantly being "enhanced" with "new features" that make the language harder to read and use. Function pointers (oops, "closures") are just the latest example of that insanity, insanity that's already costing the Java platform in that people are sticking with older versions (1.4 is still the most prevalent, 1.5 is stuck at maybe 20-30% market share and 1.6 can be safely ignored) until they can move to other environments
Java doesn't need "fixing" or "enhancing", but Sun's practice of letting the marketing department control the feature set of the platform (and them listening to whomever screams the loudest that "Java is dead unless it includes XXXXX") certainly does.
Posted by J,T, Wenting on May 19, 2008 at 05:00 AM PDT #
With respect to JavaFX, I'm all for having such a platform so long as it doesn't come at the price of Java Core resources. It seems to me that JavaFX has been in the works for over a year and these resources would have been better spent on Java6 Update 10 (Client-side enhancements). It would have benefited JavaFX while enjoying a much greater audience.
Posted by Gili on May 19, 2008 at 09:32 AM PDT #
Mikael,
I believe that they will be using the VP3 codec, which On2 released as public domain in 2001. The open-source Theora codec is also based on VP3.
Posted by Michael on May 19, 2008 at 11:52 AM PDT #
The javafx.com website really is painful to look at.
Posted by Kevin on May 19, 2008 at 12:51 PM PDT #
The JavaFX web site is very difficult for me to use on my linux box. But since I only use linux, it's difficult for me to use period.
But then again, I'm not all that thrilled with javaFX anyway. I prefer groovy's SwingBuilder.
What is Sun doing about the loss of so many of it's desktop people?
Posted by TomL on May 19, 2008 at 05:11 PM PDT #
<a href="http://www.servicegamer.com/dofus-kamas-fr.asp">dofus</a>
Posted by admin on May 20, 2008 at 02:12 AM PDT #
JavaFX or I should say, JavaFX script is the stupid thing ever invented. Sun should focus its efforts on JDK, Swing and Media support for desktop not another script language. It takes Sun more than 10 years for Swing to be what it is today. What makes us think that Sun can make JavaFX successful in a year or so.
If I need to learn another script language, I would go with Flex (Action Script). At least, we see Flash every where now. That's why I start to work with Flex.
Where is Java Kernel, where is multiple media support for JavaFX and JavaFX script for desktop after almost one year ?
Posted by Jay on May 20, 2008 at 10:19 PM PDT #
I totally agree: JavaFX ist the completely wrong way to go! It will never compete with Flash/Flex and the manpower should have been invested in creating a new Swing "Coolness" factor. Things like "iPhone" like controls + Vector UI would be a much better invest than that UGLY (!) script "language".
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