JavaFX is an expressive rich client platform for creating and delivering rich Internet experiences across all screens of your life.
JavaFX is fully integrated with the Java Runtime and takes advantage of the performance and ubiquity of Sun`s Java Runtime Environment that is installed on literally billions of devices worldwide. In addition, JavaFX fosters a productive and collaborative developer-designer workflow.
Web developers and designers can use JavaFX to imagine, create and express a real experience that jumps out of the browser and into our day-to-day lives.
JavaFX is the powerful combination of a scripting language - JavaFX Script, a set of tools and a rich client platform that enable a productive, complete, and collaborative developer-designer workflow.
Here are some key features of "JavaFX":
· Expressive RIA platform for all screens: Unified development and deployment model for building expressive RIAs across desktop, browser and mobile
· Designer-developer workflow: Dramatically shortened production cycle for designers and developers
· Powerful runtime: Leverage the extreme ubiquity, power, performance and security of Java runtime
· Ready-made mass market: Widely distribute RIAs quicker and easier across billions of devices
· Break free from the browser: Drag-and drop a JavaFX application from the browser to deploy to the desktop
· Rich client platform: Makes it easy and intuitive to integrate graphics, video, audio, animation and rich text
· Solve the security vs. usability conflict: Unlike other web technologies, JavaFX applications get broader system access with the proven Java security model
· Preserve investment in Java: Reuse existing Java libraries in JavaFX applications
· Build next-generation mash-ups: Web services support allows rapid development of mash-ups and enterprise applications
· Cross-browser compatibility: JavaFX applications look and feel consistent across all browsers on multiple platforms
· Enterprise integration: Rapidly integrate rich client UI with complex back-end enterprise applications
· RIAs with global reach: Advanced rich-text rendering with multi-lingual support to create RIAs with a global reach
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New and enhanced support for UI controls, CSS, and programmatic layout
· Performance improvements in the JavaFX Runtime
· A native JavaFX font family called Amble
· Support for the development of TV applications, including a new TV emulator
· Enhancements for mobile applications, with the availability of the mobile emulator on the Mac platform
· Support and improved editing features in NetBeans IDE 6.9 Beta
· New features and enhanced performance in JavaFX Production Suite
