Listen to the short segment below as Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert review Sun News this week including the new Sun Cystorm Supercomputer at Iowa State University, the Rainbow Falls announcement at the Hot Chips Conference, and Sun's top spot on the X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report.
Jonathan is a relatively new developer in the JavaFX environment, and only recently began working with the program after winning a trip to JavaOne in the “Dude, where's my pass?” contest. Jonathan reported that at JavaOne he was “brainwashed” by members of the JavaFX team when they showed him the work that had been done on controls. He stated: “I was pleasantly surprised and for the first time saw huge potential in JavaFX to be a player in the enterprise software arena, as well as in other areas...such as RIA.”
Read more of Jonathan's interview and listen to him talk JavaFX with Chhandomay Mandal here in Reviews Interactive.
Weekly news recap from Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert is now available. Listen to the short segment below to get caught up on all the big announcements at Sun this week.
Student Views and Reviews recently spoke with Chinmay Garde, a JavaFX developer and student in his final year of study at the Manipal Institute of Technology. Chinmay was the grand prize winner of the Code JavaFX India contest and is very passionate about both RIA and Mobile development. Chinmay stated he has been interested in developing RIAs since the release of the early betas of Flex 3 and Silverlight 2, so he has kept a close eye on the development and progress of JavaFX since the release of the preview SDK last year.
Chinmay called the 1.2 release of JavaFX “a major step forward for the JavaFX platform,” He also noted “the most compelling reason to use JavaFX is the ability to interoperate with existing Java libraries...that do amazing things...simply cannot be beaten.” Chinmay said he is looking forward to the release of the JavaFX Authoring Tool, which he believes “is definitely the most important step in achieving the goal of rich user experiences across devices.” Based on the demos he's seen online, Chinmay thinks the authoring tool “will make the designer-developer workflow more seamless.”
Read more of Chinmay's interview and listen to him talk about JavaFX with Maijaliisa Burkert in Student Views and Reviews.
Reviews Interactive recently spoke with JavaFX developer Stephen Chin, a prolific developer and blogger within the JavaFX community. Steve is one of the co-authors of the recently released Pro JavaFX Platform book, and was also named a JavaOne 2009 Rock Star for his WidgetFX session. Steve began working in JavaFX in May 2008, after being challenged by Sun's Josh Marinacci to write a program in JavaFX. The challenge turned into the development of WidgetFX, and has kept Steve “heavily involved with JavaFX,” ever since.
In discussing the new JavaFX 1.2 release Steve said “Java FX 1.2 is a huge step forward for the platform!” He stated that the Skinnable Controls, New Layout Classes, and Charting Support are, in his opinion, the most important new features in the release. When asked how JavaFX has changed the way developers create RIAs Steve said: “JavaFX takes the best of client technology with a rich scenegraph, elegant animation support, and built-in media playback, and combines this with web service access, designer skinning and tools, and full browser integration....for the first time, Java client and Web developers can join forces to build applications that are immersive, rather than tiered.”
Read more of Steve's interview and listen to him talk JavaFX with Chhandomay Mandal here in Reviews Interactive.
Kazuki found JavaFX's ability to execute on a variety of platforms to be the most useful feature when developing CalcFX. As a result, Kazuki designed CalcFX be platform independent, making it deployable in desktop, web, and mobile environments. Kazuki especially appreciated this feature, because, as he said, “in Java, you have to use a different way for each environment.” He also noted that JavaFX makes the user interface richer, by providing many filter effects on graphics.
Read more of Kazuki's interview and listen to him talk about JavaFX, and how he used it to build his winning CalcFX application in a podcast in Student Views and Reviews.
In the interview, Evgeni explained how JavaFX made it easy to develop ShiningEtherFX with helpful features for the end user. For example, to make the workplace draggable Evgeni said “it only took five lines of code or therabouts,” saying “implementing that was a dream.” In general, Evgeni noted that JavaFX “makes it easy to take care of a lot of this sort of functionality that users nowadays expect to see everywhere,” noting that just because a user expects something, doesn't mean it is easier to write, and credits JavaFX with anticipating many common use cases.
Read more of Evgeni's interview and listen to him talk about JavaFX, and how he used it to build ShiningEtherFX in a podcast in Reviews Interactive.
