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What is JavaFX?

JavaFX is a family of products and technologies from Sun Microsystems, first announced at the JavaOne developers conference in May 2007. The JavaFX products are intended to be used to create Rich Internet applications (RIAs). Currently JavaFX consists of JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile (an OS for mobile devices), although further JavaFX products are planned.

JavaFX is anticipated to compete in the space already occupied by Adobe AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight technologies. In press previews Sun Fellow James Gosling explained:

Most scripting languages are oriented at banging out Web pages. This is oriented around interfaces that are highly animated. —James Gosling

There are parts of the world where a person's desktop computer is their cell phone, and that's the kind of end point that we're going to get to, —James Gosling

JavaFX began as a project by Chris Oliver called F3.


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A graphical IDE for creating and editing JavaFX scripts

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