Saturday May 10, 2008 What's Actually Interesting About JavaFX - From The Technical And Business Perspective
Java FX wasn't that great news. Netbeans 6.0 plugin was already available for ages (at least months) - so you could play with it. However there were some interesting strategic movements announced at the JavaONE 2008:
- Java FX will come with a video and audio codecs from on2 - the demo was really impressive. This makes Java interesting for video / audio streaming
- Appets can be dragged outside the browser and installed as WebStart - this is really great idea and very useful
- Java FX will come with some instrumentation which will allow the monitoring of user behavior in all layers (I'm already curious, how it is will be implemented :-)) - something like "Business JMX"
- The integration with Scenegraph and JWebPane (Swing compatible WebKit implementation) is really exciting and opens new opportunities...
- JDK 16.u10 was already available - however it could complement the package
Wednesday’s Top Selling Books at JavaOne
...and the Top Selling books at JavaONE (Wednesday) are:
1. Effective Java 2nd Ed. (Addison Wesley)
2. Java Puzzlers (Addison Wesley)
3. Pro NetBeans IDE 6 (Apress)
4. Filthy Rich Clients (Addison Wesley)
5. Practical JRuby on Rails (Apress)
6. Groovy in Action (Manning)
7. GWT in Action (Manning)
8. Facebook Application Development (WROX)
9. Secrets of Rockstar Programmers (McGraw Hill)
10. Practical REST on Rails 2 (Apress)
