Friday 11 May 2007

Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX

This news is few days old already (was lazy to post on the day my rss bandit notified me)

r7 writes,

"Internetnews is reporting on Sun's introduction of JavaFX at JavaOne today. Looks like a combination Applet, Flash, Javascript, and AJAX with a friendly programming interface. Does this really spell the end of AJAX? I sincerely hope so. Nothing built on Javascript will ever achieve the security, cross-platform reliability, and programmatic friendliness that Web 2.0 needs. Proprietary solutions and vendor lock-in are also dead ends. JavaFX has the potential to satisfy this opportunity even better than did Java over a decade ago. Along with AJAX, let's hope JavaFX also puts paid to Microsoft's viral Active-X and JScript, and, more importantly, that it really is a web scripting language that developers can grok." (Ref: SlashDot)

Read More:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3676226

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