Is it a case of being in tune with the zeitgeist, or of great minds thinking alike? For whatever reason, Microsoft's announcement of Silverlight last week at MIX07 was followed by Sun's announcement ...

I have read about and started to learn about JavaFX twice and both times have been “strikes” in the sense that there wasn’t enough there to really use. Both of these forays into JavaFX occurred at the ...

To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, ...

At JavaOne today, Sun announced a new Java scripting environment and a new Java platform of tools and software that it plans to make consistent across everything from cell phones to desktops for "all ...

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Good old Java is back. But this time it's a little leaner and a whole lot meaner. It's the old Java mantra of "write once, run anywhere" all over again. It's also very close what Microsoft and Adobe ...

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun will roll out a Java-based product family called JavaFX, which covers Java development from the desktop to the Web to mobile devices. It features a new ...

This project offers a builder pattern API for JavaFX UI components, facilitating the creation of JavaFX applications through a fluent, strongly typed, and declarative approach. The UI code that uses ...