Sun will ship on Thursday a mobile runtime component enabling JavaFX applications to run on handheld devices including phones.

Sun with JavaFX and the new JavaFX Mobile runtime will compete with technologies such as Microsoft’s Silverlight rich Internet application platform.

JavaFX mobile is one component of a multipronged effort called JavaFX that Sun announced in May at its JavaOne conference. "JavaFX is probably the largest and most complex software engineering ...

JavaFX has undergone a remarkable transformation since its initial introduction, evolving from an experimental UI scripting framework to a mature, feature-packed platform for developing user ...

JavaFX 2.0 includes a web component based on the WebKit rendering engine, as used by the Chrome and Safari browsers. This will let developers mix and match native Java capabilities and the dynamic ...

ControlsFX features a large array of interactive graphical components for building JavaFX applications, all of which can be seen in the open source FXSampler application.

The company plans to start by contributing the JavaFX UI controls and related libraries, and will contribute other JavaFX components in multiple phases. "I think [open sourcing JavaFX] is the right ...

Eric Bruno is a senior software developer for Gorilla Logic, Inc., a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet ...