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JavaOne 2007: rolling out JavaFX

« H E Yakov Fain :: email
posted Tuesday, 8 May 2007

JavaOne opens today and it'll be interested to hear more about this renewed interest of  Sun in Java on the client. While James Gosling and Rich Green have already given some details on JavaFX in the InfoWorld publication, I'd like to hear more technical details rather than marketecture.

So far, based on the available info, I can see that JavaFX is announced as an alternative to AJAX.  One day JavaFX may start competing with Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. JavaFX will appeal to enterprise "Java-Or-Die" developers just because it'll run on JVM. As to consumer facing applications, I do not expect any serious competition to Flex or Silverlight unless the following two issues will be resolved:

1. Sun or someone else will come up with a way to eliminate the install process of the JVM that will be needed to run JavaFX on the client - any trucker from Alabama should be able to install it, and the process should be as simple as with Flash Player today.

2. The size of the JVM should become substantially smaller. Today's JVM is 16MB, while Flash 9 weighs 1.2Mb, and Silverlight's Dynamic Language Runtime  is about 4MB.

Overall, renewed attention to Java on the client is great news and I'm looking forward to seeing a technical presentation of JavaFX in action.

Here's a great way of taking  notes published in the Coté's RedMonk weblog while sitting  at the keynote of JavaOne.

 

 

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comments (2)


1. Rauf left...
Tuesday, 8 May 2007 9:29 am

In today's world, where broadband is the norm, I don't mind if the JVM for JavaFX weighs more than 5 MB. There are very few dial-up users out there.

Ease of installation is the key. The installation process should be as simple as clicking on a button and forgetting about it.

Looking forward to your detailed technical comments on JavaFX.

thanks

Rauf


2. Valery left...
Wednesday, 9 May 2007 6:12 pm

Regarding installation process. From my own experience, the install process (at least on Win) is never smooth if user has no administrator privileges. And, by the way, JRE is not the worst player here: a have more headaches with FlexBuilder and Flash when software is installed by administrator for other users of the same desktop. Isn't it a common case in corporate environment? If "yes" then why so many vendors simply ignore this scenario...