The Planetarium

If you're one of the first wave of people (like this reviewer at Infoworld who is quoted above) to try JavaFX 1.0 (before the mobile version comes) since its release in December, and you like pick up your info from the Aether, then there's a growing body of tips, tricks and examples to learn from. Here's a three recent highlights

For a general overview, you could sit back and watch the overview of the JavaFX SDK JavaFX members of the Sun team gave at Devoxx the week after the release, with a particular focus on the language features and writing an application in the talk.

Or you could read Carol MacDonald's excellent anatomy of a good looking photo browsing rich client using RESTful web services.

Or you could join in Sang Shin and Jim Weaver's free online course (have you done your homework ?). The Planetarium heard a rumor that the signup was well into the tens of thousands. Can it be true ??