JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...

Sun will detail a plan Tuesday that could make Java a formidable player in the scripting language space. At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun will roll out a Java-based product family ...

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 ...

Sun Microsystems has turned up the competitive heat on rich Internet application (RIA) development platforms Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. Today it released JavaFX 1.0. For .Net developers ...

A Sun Microsystems executive has provided a glimpse into the company’s future plans for open sourcing JavaFX, its recently released technology for building RIAs (rich Internet applications) for the ...

Sun had promised that JavaFX would be open source, but a FAQ on Sun's site indicates that only parts of the RIA development family will be open source While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the ...

As I noted in my last post, the vision of what, exactly, Java was for when it was birthed in the mid ’90s hasn’t exactly synched up with its use in practice. The fact that Java ended up powering so ...