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Hello friends I missed you all!

Hope you are all well rested and energized for a great 2009 full of promising developments and awesome new technology. Although our newest baby JavaFX is but a month old, we are hearing awesome feedback and seeing cool platforms being written in the Script language.

I want to point your attention to WidgetFX which is a desktop widget platform written in the new language. It can run widgets written in either JavaFX Script or Java and takes advantage of the latest features in the Java Consumer JRE (Java SE 6 update 10).

Here are some cool features:

• open-source
• support for multiple platforms (Vista, Linus, Mac OS)
• rich library of graphics
• one-click installation and automatic updates
  

To get more info you can visit the project site here.

It's here! The JavaFX Rich Client platform. A platform and tools suite that offers distinct advantages to Web developers, Web designers, and Java developers that are building rich, connected experiences.  Are you ready for the JavaFX experience? Get the scoop, live from Devoxx in Belgium when Sun's Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Sun's Client Software is interviewed by Jonathan Erickson, Editorial Director of Dr. Dobb's Journal in Second Life. Come join the conversation and learn how JavaFX is changing all the screens of your life.

Event December 9, 1pm PST

http://developers.sun.com/events/secondlife/index.jsp

JavaFX just launched !!

JavaFX 1.0, an expressive rich client platform for creating and delivering rich Internet experiences across all screens of your life. JavaFX 1.0 marks the first step in Sun's strategy to enable rich, immersive media and content across desktops, browsers, mobile devices and TV!

Download today at http://www.javafx.com

* JavaFX allows developers to create expressive rich Internet applications quickly and easily across multiple screens, including mobile phones, desktops, televisions, and other consumer devices.

* JavaFX provides a unified development model for building rich client applications that integrate immersive media - audio, video, vector graphics, rich text and web services

* JavaFX features a suite of designer and developer tools that enable an efficient, productive and iterative designer-developer workflow

* JavaFX combines the best capabilities of the Java platform with comprehensive, immersive media, graphics and JavaFX Script – a simple and intuitive scripting language

yay for the coolest RIA in the space my friends!

Jonathan Schwartz chats to students about Sun's history and products at the Student Technology Camp on October 24th in the Bay Area. See more student focused videos here.

Our next camp is coming up and u can register here 

Dude! Neil Young came to see us yesterday here at the Sun, Menlo Park campus to show us his coolest Linc Volt car that can run up to 100 miles a gallon. This cool Hot Rod runs has been re-engineered to run on biodiesel and electricity! Not just a cool car but a green car. Java technology is being used to monitor elements of the Linc's performance through installed sensors and we can see all the progress on an interactive web site and on a touch-screen panel inside the car.

Check out the cool pics of Neil Young and of course the "father of Java technology", James Gosling.

So why all the fuss? Well... the Link Volt is competing for the awesome Automotive X prize. According to the contest web site "The goal of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE is to inspire a new generation of viable, super fuel-efficient vehicles that offer more consumer choices. Ten million dollars in prizes will be awarded to the teams that win a stage race for clean, production-capable vehicles that exceed 100 MPGe." So let's root for our pal Neil Young and the Linc Volt in their quest to win the X prize!!!