JavaFX in Practice
I just attended ‘JavaFX in practice’ by Richard Bair, Jasper Potts and Martin Brehovsky
at Devoxx’09. JavaFX is a new technology that just came out the 4th of December (let’s say the 1.0 release came out).
JavaFX is in my opinion Sun counterattacking Adobe Flex/Flash. In this way that you can achieve the same thing with Flex/Flash as with JavaFX only it’s much easier for a Java Developer to start with it.
JavaFX also seamlessly integrates with Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, this making it easy for a developer not to care about graphics at all. The designer does his work in their application while the developer develops the application in his favourite IDE (Currently Netbeans 
is best supported).
The graphic guy/girl can just export their psd or illustrator file for JavaFX and the developer can use the .fxz file in JavaFX.
JavaFX is a scripting language that looks like Java. It is also very easy to set callbacks from and to a Java application. Integration in Swing (and the other way around) is also possible.
Sun is activelly developing/enhancing JavaFx. JavaFX 1.1 will be released in February and a 1.5 release is planned for June 2009.
Now it is only a question on who and how many will adept JavaFX for RIA’s that would normally be build with Flash and Actionscript.
