JavaFX is a new and exciting technology coming out of Oracle, and being members of the team responsible for its development, we think that we can give you insight into our thoughts and experiences with JavaFX. As key members of the JavaFX team at Oracle, you’re getting information directly from the source.
The people responsible for this site are:
Richard Bair: API design lead, key developer on the scenegraph, and lead of JavaFX UI Controls.
Jasper Potts: Design wizard and author of the Charts API in JavaFX.
Jonathan Giles: Developer on the JavaFX UI Controls team.
Between the three of us, we are heavily involved in writing demos, giving information on samples, docs, and books, linking to interesting sites, and doing other things using JavaFX. We hope you enjoy our blog!
Hallo Richard,
I am a part of a team which develops a swing based GIS (geographical information system) web-solution and we are interested to use JavaFX for the next Generation of our software.
The heart of our application is the map which contains a lot of polygons (about 30.000 to 200.000) which is actually drawn which java2D. Now we are looking forward to replace the whole swing-technology by JavaFX and so we wrote some prototypes to getting more experience and testing our requirements.
One of our prototype draws a map in JavaFX from a List of Polygons (about 30.000) in Java. The interoperation between Java and JavaFX works fine but now we are have the same problem which you have demonstrated in your blog “Performance: improving insertion times” because it takes a long time to write the sequence and set the content of a group. First we thought that we had a bug in our prototype but then we found your blog.
You announced in your update that you solved this bug. Do you know when this bug will be fixed in JavaFX because we can’t develop an application which takes so long time to draw a vectorbased map, that I can enjoy a coffee during this.
Another interessting point for us will be the JavaFX 2.0 Release. Eric Klein said in a video on javafx.com that a preview will be announced on the JavaOne 2009 and in differen blogs I read that the final verison JavaFX 2.0 will be available by the end of the year 2009.
Unfortunately the JavaFx 2.0 preview was not presented on the JavaOne 2009 and now is my question: Do you know when the JavaFx 2.0 will be released and which features will come with it? It will be also very useful for us if we know that a FX JTable will be come with 2.0 or not.
I hope you can give us a little overview of the future of JavaFX because we see a big potential in it when the teething problems are removed.
Thank you for your afforts and support!
Best regards
Steve
Hi Steve, here at Sun we are nuts about naming releases. We’re not talking about a JavaFX 2.0 internally, but have been talking about 1.2, 1.3, and so on. But who knows, I don’t make the versioning name decisions so the next release might be JavaFX XX for all I know
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I can’t comment on when the next release is, but it is coming and it rocks. You might want to contact Sun’s JavaFX Marketing guys about becoming a partner if you’d like to get early builds and such.