Sun Microsystems has released its JavaFX rich Internet application platform that puts the company in competition with Adobe and Microsoft in the RIA space. Despite its come-from-behind status, Sun ...

Available by July 2008 as part of an early-access programme, JavaFX Desktop 1.0 is expected to be available in the third quarter of this year.

Sun announced JavaFX at JavaOne in 2007, promoting the technology, particularly JavaFX Script, as a competing technology to leading technologies used for creating and deploying RIAs (rich Internet ...

JavaFX enables application deployment across multiple types of interfaces, including devices. A demonstration showed a JavaFX application being moved right from the browser onto the desktop.

Still, it has supporters. At consulting firm and software developer Welland, JavaFX was just used to update a desktop application that assists with moving data between databases.

The new runtime (JavaFX Desktop) provides all the libraries and APIs for text, graphics, animation, audio and video, explained Param Singh, Sun's senior director for Java marketing. It also contains a ...

JavaFX Preview SDK to be released this week Sun will release a preview version of the JavaFX Software Development Kit later this week, fulfilling a pledge made at JavaOne this year.

WidgetFX is an open-source desktop widget platform written in the JavaFX Script language. It takes advantage of the latest features in the Java Consumer JRE and runs on all major platforms including W ...

Earlier This month, Sun Microsystems Inc. officially joined the rich Internet application (RIA) fray, with the launch of JavaFX 1.0. JavaFX consists of the JavaFX Development Environment compiler, ...