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 ...

In a few more days the official release of JavaFX 1.0 will be made. It’s been almost exactly 2 years since my first entry on this blog, which introduced the F3 language that has since come to be known ...

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 ...

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 ...