Sun Debuts JavaFX As Alternative To AJAX

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 8, 2007 @09:24AM from the YASL dept.

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."

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Re:Have they fixed the startup time? by -noefordeg- · 2007-05-08 09:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Took my browser 5 seconds from clicking on the Slashdot logo, until the page started reloading.
Well, I'm off then. I'll surf away to the other Slashdot...
Oh, wait! I wanted to see the front of Slashdot again, so I actually waited for as long as it took.
Bummer!
Re:Have they fixed the startup time? by cortana · 2007-05-08 11:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Well someone needs to install Debian. :)

sun-java6-plugin gets you everything you need to enjoy the 12 java applets that are on the web. ;)