8/31/2023 0 Comments Javafx eclipse install![]() It’s a shame, because JavaFX has a lot going for it, and as far as I can tell stands up well technically to Flash but it needs investment in giving it a lot of polish if it’s to demonstrate this widely. ![]() Who knows what the new owners will think of this project… it’s a long way from their core business of providing large scale middleware solutions. I see this because (a) the language changed slightly after the first official release (1.0) to the next “minor” version, which smacks of carelessness (or pressures on dates of public announcements) (b) JavaFX application loading seems to be a variable experience, and certainly not as slick as Flash’s (c) patchy documentation - for your reading pleasure I quote here Chapter 10 of the JavaFX language reference in its entirety:Īdded to that, Oracle has just bought Sun. It also doesn’t seem to have been given the heavy backing and attention within Sun that anyone would need going up against the incumbent RIA platform. It’s a me-too product being Sun’s response to Adobe Flash and AIR, just as Silverlight is Microsoft’s response. Unfortunately JavaFX has a bit of a poor pedigree. I’ve been messing around programming with with JavaFX and would have liked to have used my favourite IDE, Eclipse. First the background, then the problem and finally, for the record, the solution. I was quite thrilled last night to have solved a really frustrating bug in a piece of open source software.
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